Content
- The care of cut garlic - to neglect?
- How and how often should the herb be poured?
- Does cutting garlic need fertilizer?
- Are measures necessary for the winter?
- How can the herb be multiplied?
- How and when is cut garlic cut?
- Tips & Tricks
The care of cut garlic - to neglect?
Cut garlic is still little known in the herb bed. But this herb is easy to plant, has no special location requirements and tastes delicious. What kind of care does it require?
How and how often should the herb be poured?
This herb loves a uniformly moist soil. If it is in the pot, it should be watered daily in the summer. On hot days, best in the morning and evening directly on the root area. When the bed is awake, the chopped garlic is usually enough for the rain.Only in dry times should be poured.
Does cutting garlic need fertilizer?
If chopped garlic grows in the pot or in the balcony box, it should be regularly supplied with fertilizer. In the bed, it is sufficient to enrich the soil with compost before planting. For fertilization in the pot or in the balcony box organic fertilizer such as guano is recommended. Only if you do not want to eat the herb, but plant it as an ornament, mineral fertilizer can be an alternative.
Are measures necessary for the winter?
Cut garlic is perennial. Its aboveground plant parts die off and its root system survives and is hardy. In protected locations, the plant tolerates winter temperatures down to -17 ° C and in unprotected locations temperatures down to -12 ° C.
How can the herb be multiplied?
If you have a lot of time and patience, you can easily grow cut garlic by sowing. The division of the herb is much faster and also easy and successful. It is even recommended to divide it every three years so that it preserves its power.
The sharing tolerates cutting garlic very well. That's how it's done:
How and when is cut garlic cut?
The cutting of the cut garlic is necessary to harvest the leaves and flowers. From March to the first frost in autumn, the above-ground parts of plants can be cut off and used as needed.
Tips & Tricks
In order not to overload the cut garlic, but to preserve its growth power, the inflorescences should be cut off quickly. Especially the seed formation costs the plant a lot of energy.