Garlic

Pflanzenfamilie

Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae)

Saisonübersicht

Details

Lichtbedarf

Sonnig

Wasserbedarf

Feucht

Boden

Mittelschwer (lehmig)

Nährstoffbedarf

Niedrig

Pflanzabstand

10 cm

Reihenabstand

25 cm

Saattiefe

4 cm

Anleitungen

Die Saison für diese Pflanze hat noch nicht begonnen. Die folgenden Anleitungen sind für die beginnende Saison.

Anfang September

Sowing

Anfang September

Weeding

jede Woche

Ende Dezember

Harvesting

Beschreibung

Garlic is a perennial, frost-hardy bulbous plant that is cultivated as an annual or biennial. There are two different subspecies to distinguish. Hardneck (Allium sativum var. ophioscorodon) is the name given to garlic that forms a very hard stem in the middle with the cloves on the outside. This is also the "original garlic" from which the various varieties of today were bred. It is also sometimes known as winter garlic because it is very cold tolerant and is planted in the fall. It also needs the cold stimulus to go into mock bloom. It forms a bud at the end of the flower spike in which no seeds grow, but small incubating bulbs do. The shelf life is lower at about 4 to 6 months, but hardneck garlic is particularly aromatic and very diverse in flavor. Softneck garlic (Allium sativum L. var. sativum), on the other hand, only develops foliage and therefore has no hard stem in the middle. It is set in spring and also tends to be planted in warmer areas. Softneck garlic is somewhat milder in flavor and has a shelf life of about 10 to 12 months.

Anbautipps

Garlic prefers loose, humus-rich soil without waterlogging in a sunny, open position. It thrives best at mild temperatures (12-24°C); bulb formation is inhibited at temperatures above 30°C. Individual cloves or bulbs (bulbils) are planted. The bulbs are only planted approx. 2 cm deep in the soil. With hardneck varieties, you can also cut away the false flowers on some plants so that they put all their energy into their bulbs. And only allow a few plants to form bulbils so that they can be replanted in the fall. Depending on the variety, the bulbs will form ready-made garlic bulbs or so-called round bulbs the following year. These can also be used or simply planted again the following year, when they will also form the typical bulb. They are harvested in July as soon as about 2/3 of the foliage has turned brown.