For successful cultivation and obtaining high harvests of garlic, it is very important to use the varieties that are regionalized for the locality. Otherwise, the plant very poorly adapts to changes in growth conditions.
The main signs of a variety of garlic are the shape of the bulb, the presence of an arrow, the number of teeth, and the coloration of the dry scales of the bulb. The garlic multiplies vegetatively - by teeth and air bulbs. All existing varieties of garlic are divided into two large species - winter and spring. Winter varieties of garlic (hibernating with leaves) are more common in the southern areas. In the colder regions, winter garlic sits in autumn, so that it can take root, but does not grow to frost. Spring garlic is planted in early spring.
Varieties of spring garlic
On garden plots, local varieties of summer garlic are best grown, for example, Rostov, Sterlitamak, Kalininsky and many others. These varieties do not shoot, this garlic can be kept for up to two years. Garlic has a white small bulb, in which 15-20 teeth are arranged in a spiral. Stem is low, consisting of 10-15 narrow leaves. Harvest depends on the storage conditions of planting material. If it is kept warm, it ripens forty days later, but the bulbs are large. If garlic is stored in the cold, then its bulbs ripen faster, and the teeth in them are smaller. The best option for storing garlic: the whole winter in the heat at a temperature of more than 20 degrees, and before planting the teeth can withstand in the cold.
Varieties of winter garlic
All sorts of winter garlic are divided into those that are given by arrows and those that the shooter does not give. But mostly winter garlic is an arrow. In a bulb of such garlic, no more than 12 large teeth. All varieties of large winter garlic, as well as spring, are zoned. As an example, the best varieties of winter rifle garlic are Gribovsky, Dubkovsky, Lyubasha and others. To winter crops
Less common nestrelkuyuschie varieties of winter garlic. In the bulb they have many small teeth, spirally arranged. The best examples of non-collapsing winter variety of garlic are varieties Novosibirsk, Shirokolistny 220 and other local ones.
Garlic - one of the most popular vegetables on our table, for the successful cultivation of it is very important to choose a zoned to your area variety, then the harvest will be guaranteed to you.