Everyone who visited my mom's house was asked how to grow garlic. Large heads of juicy garlic - mandatory treat, it is impossible to imagine borsch without this product! Fragrant garlic besides - a natural antibiotic. If there is it every day, no colds will be terrible!
Today you will know several subtleties, thanks to which you can arrange the perfect bed on the windowsill without any problems! Collect the crop grown with your own hands - a special kind of pleasure ...
How to grow big garlic
- For garlic grow in a comfortable environment, choose a pot depth of 20 cm with drainage holes. Calculate that garlic bulbs need to be planted at a distance of 10 cm from each other and at a distance of 10 cm from the side of the pot, so choose a pot of impressive sizes.
- Prepare the soil: Mix soil with sand in a 3: 1 ratio.
- We smash garlic on the teeth. Sit the teeth with a flat end down, this is a prerequisite!
- Placing cloves to the ground, consider that it should be 3 cm of soil between the top of the bulb and the surface of the soil.
- Put the pot on the window sill, solar light fell on the garlic 8 hours a day.
- Regularly produce plants. To do this, place the container with garlic in the sink or another place where the water could be dragged. Poes with the soil, evenly spraying it with water. Let the water drag through the holes at the bottom of the pot.
- When young garlic shoots, do not forget to arrange them at the base.
- Harvesting - in about 9 months, when the shoots become brown and start dying.
It is very important to constantly moisturize growing garlic - this plant requires a lot of moisture. Then the crop will be fame! Water for watering should be used warm - 15-18 degrees. This is the key to the fact that the heads will grow large!
It is important to know how to store garlic at home so that it does not spoil and pleased the family as long as possible. A very popular way is to store garlic in salt. You need to take the dry heads of garlic and put in salt. It is stored perfectly if you keep the tank with salt in a dry place.
In order not to save garlic, you can also store it in the bags of fabric. Even more efficiently, fill this bag onion husks, and only then add the garlic inside - it will be as if just torn from the bed!
Another method of storage of garlic for all who cannot live without this acute and fragrant seasoning. It is necessary to grind garlic through a meat grinder, decompose into ice molds and freeze. This method bribes with its convenience: you can add garlic in stew, soup, vegetables, sauces immediately, nothing will have to be cleaned. Pulled out of the freezer - and ready.
Few people know about it, but it is extremely useful to eat garlic fried in a frying pan or baked in the oven! Natural antibiotic is perfectly absorbed in this case, removes slags and toxins from the body. And no sharp smell!
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