The only thing that saves you from the summer heat is the morning sea, which you can plunge into after a hot, stuffy night. After the sea, a cup of morning coffee will cheer you up a little more. And then one weekend I thought of garlic. It is not surprising that the Egyptians fed them with slaves who built the pyramids of Cheops, and Nero ordered them to be given to legionaries to increase their physical strength and combat capability.
In addition, fresh garlic cloves increase the body’s resistance, stimulate appetite, improve digestion, heart function, blood composition, dilate blood vessels, reduce blood sugar levels, have antiseptic, diuretic, choleretic, antisclerotic, mild sweating, analgesic, anthelmintic and other useful properties. But garlic can not be used for kidney diseases and gastritis with increased secretion of gastric juice.
And the garlic plant, which presumably came from Central Asia, can be used as an ornamental crop. At the beginning of the growing season, it supports a green feather, later — gray-green. For large bulbs, flower arrows are pulled out, and if you want to get bulbs for reproduction, leave them.
Planting pattern: 20 x 8-10 cm/7.9×3.1-3.9 inches (for spring garlic), 30 x 8 cm/11.8×3.1 inches (for winter); tooth depth-4-5 cm/1.6-2 inches (in spring), 6-7 cm/2.4-2.7 inches (in autumn). Prefers sandy or light loamy, fertile soils. The best predecessors: cucumbers, early cabbage, tomatoes, zucchini, legumes.