The highly healing properties of raw garlic are due to the chemical composition of the plant, which contains carbohydrates, proteins, a set of B vitamins, ascorbic acid, trace elements (a lot of phosphorus, iron, potassium, calcium), sulfide and arsenic compounds. A pungent taste and a specific smell to the plant are given by the essential oil - allicin. This organic antioxidant destroys free radicals in cells . In addition to the sterilizing effect, allicin has an irritating effect, which causes expectorant and sokogonnyh effects. The biologically active substances of garlic juice have antimalarial, antifungal, antiviral, anthelmintic and anti-inflammatory effects. Immunostimulating and anti-cancer effects are suggested. As an additive to food, it prevents poisoning by substandard products. Used as a means of reducing bad cholesterol and high blood pressure. For ulcers in the stomach or intestines, kidney disease and anemia, garlic is not recommended. Planting and care of this plant for mankind are known, as well as its medicinal properties, since ancient times. To grow this healthy vegetable is not difficult.
Winter garlic. Care
There are types of garlic - spring and winter. In the first, the covering flakes are white, in the second - with a pinkish or purple hue. Varieties of winter: Gribovsky anniversary, Gribovsky-60, Komsomolets, Otradnensky are shooters. In addition to the underground head, garlic on an ejected arrow forms an air bulb with bulbs of garlic in miniature. Non-Shooting Variety - Danilovsky Local Garlic. Planting and caring for spring and winter garlic differ only in terms of planting. Spring plants are planted in spring, at the end of April, winter - a month before the onset of subzero temperatures. Loamy fertile neutral soil - the best for winter garlic. Care of plants on such soil will consist in regular loosening of row-spacing to a depth of 3 cm, watering in May-June-first decade of July. In dry weather, watered every 10 days at a flow rate of 1 square meter. m. 12 l, in a particularly hot summer - after 5 days. In rainy summers, you do not need to water the garlic. Top dressing: the first - with 3-4 leaves in a bucket of water, dilute 1 tbsp. l urea or crystallin and pour from a watering can an area of 3 square meters. m. The second - after 2 weeks. In a bucket of water bred 2 tbsp. l nitroammophoski - this solution is enough for 3 square meters. m. The third (and last) - in the formation of the head, in the second half of June. On a bucket of water take 2 tbsp. l crushed superphosphate. A bucket of mortar is enough for 3 sq.m.
Preparation for landing
The bed is made in a dry place open to the sun. If the soil on the site is loamy, then per 1 sq. Km. m. evenly sprinkle compost and humus - in a bucket, 1 tbsp. l superphosphate and potassium sulfate, chalk or lime fluff - 1 cup. Dig up to 20 cm of depth. If the soil is sandy, then the best will be the introduction of two buckets of loam and a bucket of peat per 1 square. m. In a peat soil make 1 bucket of sand and loam. Fertilizers are the same. After digging, the bed needs to be compacted, poured with a solution of copper sulfate (1 tbsp. L. - 1 sq. M. Beds on a bucket of water).
Healthy and dried heads are selected from freshly harvested garlic. Disassemble into cloves, it is advisable to sort them by size. Then rinse the cloves in a salt solution for 2 minutes, taking 3 tbsp. half a bucket of water. After that, they are immersed for a minute in a solution of water and copper sulfate with the same concentration as for the treatment of beds - 1 tbsp. vitriol on a bucket of water. And then immediately planted in the garden.
Planting scheme - in grooves to a depth of 6-8 cm, rows after 20 cm. The cloves are put downside down. After 2 weeks, a bed of garlic is covered with humus with a layer of 2 cm. This is done so that garlic does not die in winter. Landing and care this fall are ending. The most important thing is that the garlic does not shoot in the autumn and does not freeze in the winter.
Agrotechnical techniques
To grow large heads, break out the arrows of inflorescences. To obtain excellent planting material, grow from bulbs, having selected them from the most developed plants, odnozubkovy garlic. Landing and caring for it are the same. Next season, very large, multi-tooth plants will grow from single-tooth garlic.
Harvest
Garlic is harvested when its stems are yellowed and laid down. If you are late for harvesting, then the bulbs will break up into cloves, and such garlic can no longer be stored for a long time. Together with the leaves, the garlic is left to ripen for 12 days, hanging under a canopy. In cloudy weather it needs to be cleaned indoors. Then the stems and rhizomes from the bottoms are cut, cleaned from the ground and put the heads in storage.
As you can see, growing a healthy and irreplaceable vegetable is not so difficult and difficult. Your family will be provided with environmentally friendly vitamin and medicinal garlic.