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- Pull garlic: pest scare and natural remedies
- Hardly any effort with your own garlic rearing
- From the difficult road to the real garlic plants
Tubers that are set in the fall become bigger
Pull garlic: pest scare and natural remedies
The best planting date for this, in many German kitchens indispensable onion plant, is the autumn. The tubers grow larger than those planted in the spring, but the problem with possible pests increases a bit because the garlic fly thus gains a lot of time for its destructive work. If you put garlic in the beds now, you should protect your plants with a cultural protection net or plenty of vegetable fleece.
Otherwise, the great tuber is extremely easy to clean and is also suitable for self-planting in raised beds and on the balcony and, if necessary, even on the kitchen windowsill. Your garlic harvest will be particularly aromatic, spicy and healthy next spring, if you use native and naturally fresh garlic, preferably from the region, for your own cultivation.
Hardly any effort with your own garlic rearing
From mid-September, the undamaged cloves of garlic, which were previously separated from the tuber, about two to three inches and put with the onion soil down in the soil.The optimal planting distance is at least ten centimeters, the planting depth not more than three centimeters. Professionals put their toes a bit diagonally in the prepared planting holes and thus avoid any root rot that can damage the young plants in the event of excessive autumn rain. Because garlic prefers loose soils, when planting it is best to add some compost, mixed with some sand, into the soil. Although garlic is generally considered to be hardy, it can not hurt to protect the plants from freezing temperatures with a cover of straw or mulch during the cold season. Depending on how the autumn weather is reflected in the temperature, regular weeding by hand and simultaneous loosening up of the soil will make your garlic not only juicy and big for the harvest, but also a culinary hit in terms of taste.
From the difficult road to the real garlic plants
Anyone who visits our garden portal regularly knows a bit about the common types of garlic. Only: Where are such plants that are suitable for self-cultivation in the garden? If you look in the garden shop for sources, you notice quite quickly that the variety of garlic has simply been lost. Chinese garlic is more than dominant, which is hardly surprising in the offer prices. That's why we researched a little more thoroughly in the German-speaking world and basically found two sources of supply that could almost pass as insider tips.
And it still exists, the real garlic farmers. Not here in Germany but in Austria, but Wolfgang Mayr has bred more than 50 different types of garlic as part of his pure breeding program, ranging from their aromatic properties, from mild to very hot. The 2019er crop he dries already in his attics and a fairly wide assortment of its delicacies, can be viewed and bought on the page "Schaetzeausoesterreich".
Not quite as big, but certainly not less delicious is the offer of the aroma gardener from Werder an der Havel, which also has older German garlic plants.