Rokambol garlic – perennial plant from family of onions, not without reason it still call onions garlic. This powerful plant grows from 70 cm to 1 m in height.
Leaves Rokambol by the form remind leek leaves, and the large head (of the size of fist) is separated into teeth as at garlic. This garlic has original taste, combining aroma of onions and garlic at the same time. Therefore it can replace both onions, and garlic in many dishes.
Agrotechnology. Rokambol prefers the open, lit areas with prime quality land. He can be imprisoned on places where cucumbers, squash, cabbage, bean grew. It is better to pave the way since fall, bringing in it manure or compost. Most often this garlic is landed in the spring, but also autumn landing is possible. In this case beds need to be covered in order to avoid destruction by frost of planting stock.
Before landing of bulb (if they mnogozubkovy, then it is necessary to separate into segments) it is necessary to clean from excess scales, to accurately remove old collums and for the night to wet in weak solution of potassium permanganate. To land ranks through 25-30 cm, and between cloves – 15-20 cm. It is better to sort cloves by the size that plants evenly developed and at the same time ripened. To the earth it is necessary to close up on depth of 5-8 cm. The clove is larger, the landing is deeper.
Care for garlic consists in weeding, watering, obligatory scarification not only between ranks, but also around plant. It is necessary to monitor timely watering that is necessary when forming bulb. Usually, if the soil is well fertilized, then fertilizing is not required for plant.
Cleaning of garlic. In September when the lower leaves begin to dry out, and top turn yellow and lay down, it is possible to make cleaning of plant. It is necessary to dig out garlic accurately not to allow breaking of children. When cleaning heads of the earth do not allow blows as bulbs are very sensitive to bruises. After cleaning, garlic needs to be connected in bunches together with tops of vegetable and to hang out in the aired place. After drying cut off stalks and roots and put on storage in the aired room.
If garlic was planted in the spring, then the large odnozubka grows from clove. And having put it in the fall, the bulb with several (usually 4-6) teeth will grow. Rokambol's reproduction can be carried out also by children who are formed at head collum.