Decorative garlic: planting and care

Many people think about how to decorate their summer cottage with original and useful plants.Undoubtedly, one of such interesting plantings will be decorative garlic, already beloved by gardeners. This amazing plant will add color to any flowerbed. But the most pleasant thing about him is that he, like ordinary garlic, is edible. The plant has a whole set of vitamins and has many useful properties. And gardeners often use this culture for the preparation of solutions that repel pests.

The country garden will not look boring with such plantings, all the more so now the areas not planted with vegetable crops are popular, but lawns and flower beds. Such an environment is more conducive to relaxation and rest from the bustle of the city. This task perfectly cope decorative garlic. Breeders deduced many species of this plant, differing in size, color and shape of the flower.

Reaches 25 cm in height, this name is received, because its flower has a golden color. It can grow on any place of the site, including in the shade. Replace this species every three years to prevent chopping. It blooms towards mid-summer.

The plant has white flowers in the shape of a bell. This species loves the sun and does not tolerate excess moisture. Flowering occurs at the beginning of summer.

Low plant up to 25 cm in height. Despite the name, it has flowers of rich wine-red color. Ripens in early July.

Place for planting decorative garlic should be changed every three years. This plant is unpretentious, but it is worth choosing places that are not too shaded and not allow excessive soil moisture. This crop grows well in the place of legumes, cucumbers or cabbage, but its planting after tomatoes or potatoes is not recommended. This is due to the fact that these cultures have similar diseases.

Decorative garlic is planted in two ways.

• Seeds. Before planting, they are soaked for a day, the floating seeds are removed and discarded. Sow in the ground in the wells no deeper than 5 cm and sprinkled with coarse sand. It is important that after landing the frosts do not occur at least a month and a half.

• Slices. The distance between the bulbs during planting should not be less than 15 cm, this will give the culture to grow well. The flowers in this case will be bright and large.

Still often use wet newspapers - the teeth fit into the holes made and are covered with humus and earth. This method allows the plant to rise and gain strength without the intervention of weeds.

If it is decided to grow garlic with the help of cloves, then the soil is prepared in advance, at the end of summer. Soil needs to be dug and fertilizers applied: superphosphate and magnesium sulphate, wood ash and humus.

Decorative garlic is considered an unpretentious plant, and care for it is quite simple. Comfortable temperature for this culture is + 21-25 ° C. Watering should be moderate, without excessive moisture and dryness of the soil. Then it is recommended to make loosening, and repeat this procedure several times per season.

Garlic, like all garden crops, is subject to various diseases and pests. The most common diseases are:

• neck rot (appears during storage if the bulbs are poorly dried);

• downy mildew (it is caused by mushrooms, which are very fond of dampness and a moist environment, therefore sunny places are preferable for planting).

This unique plant fully performs its functions: decorative and culinary. Nowadays gardens with bows are very popular in landscape design.It is recommended to plant several varieties at once. However, it is worth considering that when the flowering stops, the leaves will have a not very presentable appearance, so it is recommended to plant various flowers nearby. Next to decorative garlic, irises, peonies, and delphinium get along well. It is also widely used in winter bouquets, because even after cutting it retains its appearance.

Many gardeners practice the use of decorative garlic. The arrows of the plant are not inferior in taste to his usual fellow and are very good, for example, in salads. The fruits of this culture taste like turnips. At the end of the summer you can dig it up, in case the plant belongs to winter crops. And so the harvest is made in September. You can achieve performance up to one and a half kilograms per square meter. But in most cases the plant is planted for its decorative function.

Chinese garlic also has an interesting appearance, notable for the fact that even its flowers are edible. It is widely known as fragrant onions or mountain garlic. This plant begins its history from western China, grows there on hills, meadows and stony soils. Distributed almost throughout Asia, as well as in India, Thailand and the Far East. In Siberia, the plant is called "dzhusay." Its leaves are flat and resemble ordinary grass.

It is a shrub about 30 cm tall with narrow leaves and white flowers. It has a strong pleasant smell, in fact, for which he received the name "fragrant onion." The leaves and stems of Chinese garlic have a specific flavor, but they are not as sharp as regular garlic. False bulb, mild.

The plant, except for seeds, can be propagated by dividing the bushes, and the harvest will be in the same year. Chinese garlic does not have a rest period, so it grows well in pots at home. Since ancient times, the plant has been valued for its beneficial properties - it combines choleretic, diuretic, and vessel strengthening properties.

In nature, you can also find wild garlic - this is the well-known wild garlic. It can be observed from early spring. It has a pronounced taste and a specific recognizable smell. It blooms in small white flowers, too, and it can multiply using seeds as well as dividing bulbs. It grows in central Russia, in Europe and even in Turkey.

The use of the word "onion" in the names of these crops is not accidental, because all these plants belong to the genus onion and onion subfamily. Two types are most popular.

• "Angular" or "mouse" onions. It reaches a height of about 60 cm, has dark greens and is also common in Central Asia. Its taste is onion-garlic, and it also has bactericidal properties.

• "Victory" bow. Spread over large areas than wild garlic or “mouse” onions. It also grows in North America, China, Sakhalin and the Caucasus. This onion is also called Siberian wild garlic, it is devoid of bitter taste. Peduncle grows more than a meter.

Wild garlic is an excellent dietary product enriched with vitamins. In addition, it has a number of healing properties:

• increases appetite and facilitates digestion;
• improves the condition with low acidity;
• has a diuretic effect;
• has a bactericidal effect;
• has an antihistamine effect;
• burns fat, speeding up lipid metabolism.

Each of these plants is beautiful and very useful in its own way. And since this culture is undemanding in care, you can land several species on your site at once. Different colors of flowers will allow garlic to take place on any flower bed.

You will learn more about planting and caring for a decorative bow in the following video.