Yarovoy - call garlic which is planted in the spring. In comparison with winter, summer garlic has some distinctive features of cultivation and harvesting.
Summer garlic differs from winter not only cultivation agrotechnology, but also has some biological differences. Bulb of summer garlic less dense, in them there are more cloves, but they more thinly and more small. And if to choose what garlic to prefer, then it is necessary to consider that cultivation of summer garlic is slightly more difficult, but and the harvest it is stored much longer.
Features of landing and leaving
For receiving good harvest it is necessary to know some features of cultivation. Summer garlic is planted in the early spring. For landing select extreme cloves of bulb. Central grow small, and therefore it is inexpedient to put them. The term of landing define earlier. At the beginning of vegetation, summer garlic prefers low temperatures and consequently, plant it as soon as snow will descend and the soil minimum will get warm, that is at the end of March - the beginning of April.
It is caused by the fact that when landing to the heated-up soil and high average daily temperatures all nutrients actively go to leaves and arrows, and future bulbs badly take roots and as a result are exhausted and grow small. Put garlic teeth on depth of 5 cm. During all vegetation, garlic praises on podkarmlivaniye nitrogen fertilizers. Watering is made regularly, without allowing drying of the soil. As soon as garlic begins to strelkovatsya shooters pull out from stalk and use in the food purposes. From this point it is possible to begin fertilizing with the phosphorus-potassium fertilizers promoting growth of bulbs. It is very useful to strew row-spacings with wood ashes which besides fertilizer of the soil also save garlic from wreckers.
Harvesting and storage
At the end of August - the beginning of September as soon as leaves turn yellow and will lie down, it is possible to begin cleaning of summer garlic. It is desirable to dig garlic in dry clear weather. It is necessary to dry bulbs on air several days then to touch, remove damaged and to braid in braids, using dry leaves and stalks so that heads of garlic formed single-layer row, as weaving of wreaths of dandelions. But it is possible and just to remove dry leaves and to store heads in the wicker breathing baskets. Summer garlic is perfectly stored in the warm aired rooms up to one and a half years. If spring landing is planned, then the planting stock in March goes away to more cool place for stimulation of future growth.