If you still believe that garlic is a “simple crop,” you have no idea what secret agronomists are hiding from you.
Imagine: instead of 15 heads per meter of garden bed, you collect 50, and each one is the size of a fist. The secret that fertilizer manufacturers keep silent about was known in Ancient China.
The magazine "Gardener and Vegetable Gardener" conducted an experiment: cloves soaked in a solution of birch ash (1 glass per 5 liters of water) 2 weeks before planting produced roots 2 times stronger than the control group.
"The lignins in the ash activate dormant buds," explains agronomist Mikhail Vorobyov. "But if the concentration is exceeded, the solution will burn the roots, so it is important to strictly adhere to the proportions."
Chinese farmers used this method to grow the imperial garlic that was served at the Tang Dynasty table. Today, it has been adapted by modern gardeners.
Svetlana from Rostov-on-Don shared on social media:
"I used to collect 10 kg per hundred square meters, but this year it's 35! The neighbors think I'm doing magic."
But there is a nuance: the ash must be birch - it contains a record amount of potassium and phosphorus. Experts from the Biodynamics magazine confirmed that oak or pine ash does not give such an effect.
But here is the main mistake: do not rinse the cloves after soaking! The remaining ash creates a protective film against fungi.
“At first I was afraid that I would burn the garlic, but everything worked!” writes Olga from Krasnodar.
For maximum results, plant garlic during a full moon—lunar cycles enhance root growth.
Author: Valeria Kisternaya
