Garlic, like any garden crop, will be large and fragrant only under comfortable growing conditions. If you plant even a very good variety in bad soil, there will not be a rich harvest.
Garlic planting process
About a month before planting garlic, you need to level the bed and fill it with mowed grass.
In October, the heads of a good variety of garlic are separated into cloves.
Then holes are made in the beds.
For this, a wooden peg and a hammer are used. They shoot right through the laid grass. The ideal scheme for planting garlic is a 15x15 cm cage.
Next, the cloves are planted in the holes and sent in with soil. The top of the bed is mulched with a thick layer of leaves. Garlic is left in this form until spring.
In spring, garlic shoots will easily break through the thickness of the foliage.
Due to abundant mulching, the bed will not have to be weeded and loosened. The only thing that may be required is watering in case of abnormal drought.
When the arrows appear on the tops, they are cut off, so the heads will turn out larger.
A couple of arrows should be left in order to assess the level of maturity of the heads. You can remove the garlic when they open.
The proposed method not only allows you to grow almost abnormally large heads of garlic, but also eliminates the summer worries of caring for it.
Immediately after harvesting, the bed should be mulched with grass so that it is as productive as possible next year.
