Many gardeners plant garlic in their plots. If you correctly perform this procedure, carefully fill the bed with nutritious mixture in the autumn, then in the spring and summer of next year, you do not need to feed this crop at all. Leaving will consist in infrequent watering, cultivation and weeding.
Before starting work, you should decide when to plant garlic. This is usually done in autumn, and the best time for sowing it in the middle lane has always been considered from September 25 to October 10. Recently, due to noticeable warming, you can plant this crop in mid-October. The main thing is that the cloves have time to give good roots, but the green stems would not start to grow. Someone argues that this is not a big deal, that garlic will winter well, even if it grows in the fall. Maybe, but it's not worth the risk. Even if the sprouted cloves persist until spring, then the harvest from them will turn out later.
Another important question relates to what depth to plant garlic in the winter. If the clove is not deep enough, then due to autumn rains it will rise higher and may appear above the soil. Then he definitely can’t do it - winter frosts will do their job, and such planting material will not survive until spring. Too deep into the ground it is also not necessary. In spring, due to the high level of groundwater, it may bend or not overcome the high soil layer and not germinate.
Therefore, speaking about the depth to which garlic should be planted in the winter, you need to know clearly - it should correspond to 12-15 cm. After the clove is planted, mentally above it, place two more exactly the same so that the top of the latter touches the soil level . If everything turned out that way, then the depth is calculated correctly.
The bed is prepared in advance (2 weeks) so that the soil has settled before the planting work begins. The bed should be 20-25 cm high. First, dig up the ground, then add well-ripened compost or humus. On 1 m² make one bucket of this organics. With a rake, it is embedded in the soil. Now you need to mark the bed. To make the rows even, you can pull the rope, tying it on both sides to the pegs. Pits are good to do with the back of the shovel, its shaft. This will help to solve the problem with greater accuracy, at what depth to plant garlic in the winter. Marks equal to 12 and 15 cm are made on the handle of the shovel. On the row where larger cloves will grow, a deeper hole is formed, for less planting material - less deep. To achieve the desired width, with a bayonet, the shovels simply expand the hole, twisting it slightly.
But it is important not only to know at what depth to plant garlic, but also to have an idea about the planting pattern. For large cloves, it is 15 x 15 cm, for small ones - 10 x 10 cm. Beforehand, it is better to wet them in the antifungal drug "Maxim" or in a pink solution of potassium permanganate for 40 minutes. A small handful of sand is poured into each hole, one granule of AVA fertilizer is placed there , then a clove. This sandwich is covered with a small handful of sand and light soil.
After a novice gardener finds out the depth to which garlic should be planted in the winter, and put the theory into practice, he can hope for an excellent harvest.