Garlic – ancient vegetable culture. It is widely used in preparation, in pickling, pickling, preservation. He gives the dish a spicy highlight.
Egyptian and Chinese gardeners have grown garlic 2 millennia before our time. There it was consumed with salty meat, with salty fish. Russians learned its useful qualities only in the 9th century. The Byzantines introduced them to the garlic.
Healing qualities of garlic
Garlic is considered a good medical tool. Its beneficial qualities have been used in several centuries and our time. Ancient doctor Paracelsus with the help of garlic fought with cholera, dysentery, scurvy and eczema. Today, garlic is an indispensable tool for the prevention of certain diseases. Sometimes it surpasses modern antibiotics with its qualities.
The composition of garlic includes allicin, fatty and essential oil, inulin, vitamins, proteins, phytoncides and vitamin C.
Phytoncides destroy microbes of some diseases, such as cholera, dysentery, and abdominal typhoid.
Garlic favorably acts on the heart and digestive system.
Fresh garlic juice is actively fighting flu infections. Many countries sell garlic to suppress the flu epidemics.
In modern medicine, an allochol is made from garlic. It is prescribed for chronic hepatitis, cholecystitis, atonic constipation.
A tincture is made from garlic, which is used to treat hypertension, atherosclerosis, and reduce putrefactive decays in the intestines.
With chopped garlic, warts and corns are removed.
Garlic should be carefully consumed for people with kidney problems.
The difference between spring and winter garlic
Spring garlic contains more cloves, but does not have a rod, like a winter garlic. In addition, winter garlic cloves are covered with purple scales.
Condition for growing spring garlic
Garlic requires a light, dry place. Before sowing on the garden, humus, superphosphate and potassium sulfate are introduced. When the earth is acidic, then add to 1 sq. m. A glass of chalk.
Clay soil is improved with peat and sand. Soil with a predominance of peat, diluted with sand and clay. The bed is dug up, aligned and disinfected with copper sulfate. Enough one large spoon on a bucket of water.
Planting garlic
For seeds, only large teeth are used. They are deepened into the grooves for 2 cm. at a distance of 6 cm. Rows of garlic are separated by about 20 cm. Plant garlic in the last days of April or the first May days. The best spring variety is the Moscow, Leningrad, Bratov, Kalininsky, Gribovsky, Blagoveshchensky.
Care for garlic
In a couple of weeks, when the garlic comes up, nitrogen fertilizers are applied to the bed. A glass of urea and liquid manure on a bucket of water is enough. The next time they feed in the formation of Lucavis.
Care consists in weeding, watering, loosening and saving from pests. Weded with warm water once a week.
Cleaning and storage of garlic
Когда листья чеснока желтеют и даже полегают, а на соцветиях образуются трещинки, то это признак созревания чеснока. This usually happens in the last days of summer. In dry weather, garlic is dug out of the bed, cleaned of the ground and left on the surface of the beds to dry. After a five -day drying, the roots with a knife or a secateur are removed from the garlic. The leaves are cut too, leaving one and a half cm. A dry place is chosen for storing garlic. Sometimes stored in a glass jar, sprinkling with flour heads.
Winter garlic
The requirement for the basis for growing winter garlic is the same with the requirements of spring garlic. Only large. Whole cloves are dipped in a solution of table salt (1 small spoon per liter of water) and in a solution of copper sulfate. Without draining, they plant them with a Donets in the ground to a depth of 4 cm. The following varieties are suitable for central Russia: Egorlyk. Dungan, Gribovsky 60, sail. Winter garlic is planted in the last days of September. It is necessary that the garlic has time to form roots, but does not release the pen, then it will freeze. On the bed is poured 3 cm peat or humus. In winter they throw snow. In the spring, in May, a bed with garlic is watered once a week. When 3 weeks remain before cleaning, watering is discontinued.
During the summer of winter, garlic is fed 3 times. With the advent of 3 leaflets, garlic is fed with urea, 1 large spoon per bucket of water.
For the second time, top dressing is made in a couple of weeks. Enough 2 tablespoons per bucket of water.
The third top dressing is carried out when the bulbs are formed. There are enough 2 spoons of superphosphate on a bucket of water.
Cleaning and storage of garlic
In the last days of July, the leaves turn yellow in garlic, then garlic can be considered ripened. It is dug out of the ground, the roots are cut, and spread out on the litter, on the street or indoors.
Cooking from garlic juice
Ground greens are passed through a juicer. A large spoon of salt is applied to a glass of juice. The mixture is stirred and poured into jars. They are pasteurized for 20-25 minutes. Close and stored in the refrigerator. Garlic juice is added to the prepared dish to improve taste.