When to plant garlic in the fall, how to prepare and how to treat the garden before planting?
Preparatory work, fertilization with manure before planting vegetables will help to get high, high-quality yields in the future. And it's worth starting to think about landing in advance. Some garden crops are planted in the winter. Therefore, it is important to know how to prepare a garlic bed for planting in the fall. After all, it is necessary to decide on the landing site a month and a half before it. Planting time depends on the weather and climatic conditions of the region. The main thing here is not to be late, otherwise the plant will freeze without rooting. But an early landing will lead to the fact that the sprouts will hatch and die from a sharp cold snap.
Seat selection
Before planting, choose a place for a vegetable crop. It is impossible grow garlic in the same place. Every year they change the site for culture. Where garlic grew, you can plant it after three years.
For a good harvest of the vegetable, fertilizers are applied to the soil in advance before planting. Experienced gardeners advise how to fertilize the land before planting garlic on the site in the fall. Better to use both mineral and organic. But it is better not to feed the soil with fresh manure. Organic matter will damage the planted teeth and rot.
Preparing a site for planting garlic begins with determining the acidity of the soil. For a vegetable, a neutral soil related to light loam is suitable.
The choice of location is determined by how well the soil warms up and how far the groundwater lies. You cannot plan a bed for winter garlic in those places where water stagnates after rains.
Determination of soil acidity
Planting winter garlic in the fall begins with planning:
- the amount of fertilizer;
- to what depth to plant a winter plant species;
- selection of predecessors;
- composting for pre-treatment of ridges.
But planting cannot be carried out without determining the acidity of the soil. For garlic, the norm is a neutral indicator from 5.5 to 7.0.
Acidic soils with a pH of 4.0 to 5.0 have a rusty hue, and water accumulated in the lowlands is covered with an iridescent film on top. In areas with acidic soil, plantain, horsetail, mint grow well.
On slightly acidic - chamomile, coltsfoot, wood lice. Prefers neutral ground nettle. And for garlic, it is most acceptable.
Acidity is reduced by introducing dolomite flour or slaked lime into the soil. You can increase the level with wood ash.
Selection of predecessors
Think about how to prepare the soil in the fall for planting garlic in advance. An important role is played by what kind of neighbors the garlic garden should have.Of the predecessors, cucumbers and zucchini will be the best. But vegetables - garlic and onions do not go well with each other. Although the vegetable with its smell scares away pests of garden and garden crops, raspberries and grapes do not tolerate such a neighborhood. Vegetable culture inhibits the development of the root system of berry plants.
Tomatoes, cucumbers withstand the neighborhood with a fragrant plant. Vegetables along with zucchini, beans will provide the soil with nutrients. But for carrots, the pungent smell of the plant will scare off the pest - the onion fly, but the culture will grow poorly next to the carrot beds.
The garlic bed before winter should be planned in advance, and the predecessors are taken care of as early as possible.
Planting siderates - oats, peas, white mustard - will help make the soil nutritious. These plants are planted in the spring on the site where they plan to plant the plant in the fall.
Planted crops are harvested in mid-August. The soil after the green manure will be filled with the elements necessary for plant growth.
A mixture of oats, peas and mustard is planted along the bed in the fall. By October, the seedlings will grow up, and their stems will cover the planting of the vegetable. During the winter, green manure will keep the snow in the garden bed, protect the seedlings from frost.
In the spring, rotten parts of plants will be an excellent organic fertilizer.
Tillage
Before planting winter garlic in the fall, you need to start with arranging the beds. The site is dug up, improving the structure of the soil:
- In clay - add a bucket of sand and peat per square meter.
- Heavy, dense soils are loosened with sand.
- Lands with sand are structured with a bucket of peat and two buckets of clay.
If the beds are made on virgin soil, then a mixture of a glass of chalk or dolomite flour, two glasses of potassium sulfate and wood ash is added per square meter.
The quality of the soil will improve if you scatter humus over the bed, followed by digging.
Sowing green manure will make the earth nutritious, filled with useful elements.
Sprinkle the garden bed with urea in the fall, taking one tablespoon per one and a half to two square meters of the plot.
Preparing the land for planting garlic in the fall is an important step in harvesting the vegetable.
Disinfection
How to prepare a bed for a winter crop in the fall so that the plant does not become infected with pathogenic microorganisms? Fungi accumulate in the ground in the fall, and the garlic may die without ever growing.
The soil is sterilized by treatment with a solution of copper sulfate. A tablespoon of the substance is diluted in ten liters of water and the soil is spilled. To improve the disinfection process, the bed is covered with a film for a day or two.
Requires disinfection and cloves prepared for planting. They are soaked in a weak solution of potassium permanganate, holding for twenty to thirty minutes.
Fertilizers
Digging the beds is carried out to the depth of the garlic planting. The optimal size would be one meter wide, twenty centimeters high. After harvesting the roots of weeds from the garden, the soil is loosened. Two weeks later, spill copper sulfate with a disinfectant solution. The ground covered with film will sit down. The missing elements are introduced into it. How to fertilize the land in autumn for garlic? From top dressing, the soil needs superphosphate. It is mixed with humus and introduced together with digging or loosening the site.
It is useful to use boric acid (10 grams), potassium permanganate (3 grams), iron vitriol (2 grams) as a top dressing, dissolving the substances in a bucket of water.
Fertilizers are applied in the fall under the garlic so that the vegetable meets the spring with an optimal diet. Then the seedlings will come out early after winter and will be strong.
Preparing the beds
If the garden bed is prepared, then the correct planting of garlic in the fall is as follows:
- At a distance of ten centimeters from each other, holes are made with a depth of three to ten centimeters.The teeth are planted at a shallow depth two to three weeks before frost in the second decade of September or early October. The denticles are placed deeper in areas with severe winters. This method of planting will allow the plant to root better.
- Only winter varieties of garlic should be planted in the fall, the heads of which are covered with lilac skin and have a core.
- The distance between rows is twenty to thirty centimeters.
- The bulbs are laid out in the prepared holes without deepening.
- Cover the holes with a compost layer on top.
- Mulching the beds is carried out with a layer of fallen leaves, needles, peat.
In planting a vegetable, it is important to know how to prepare a garden for garlic in the fall. If the work was carried out without taking into account the rules and advice of vegetable growers, then the seedlings that appeared in the spring will be weak and rare. Harvesting large heads of vegetable then can not wait.
