The school of the vegetable grower in detail tells about garlic cultivation.
The Ukrainian magazine for professionals
In recent years in the USA the areas of cultivation of the vegetable culture known there as elephant or huge garlic quickly increase. Outwardly it is similar on usual, but it is many times more (some heads reach the size of grapefruit at weight about 0,5 kg) and each of which shares on only 4-5 Zubkov, in size with a head of usual garlic. Others taste (more delicate) and aroma (less intensive).
For this reason the American advertizing represents it as garlic for those who doesn’t love garlic. It is generally applied as a component of salads and addition to sandwiches. At restaurants it submit and baked in the furnace or on a grill. Elephant garlic because of increased its popularity grow up on plantations under commodity production. All crop is realized by the piece through a network of supermarkets, shops of delicacies and on the Internet.
The price of one head costs about 4 US dollars, and in the British shops imported of America and China garlic costs 5 pounds sterling.
According to the botanical characteristic, huge garlic isn’t garlic – he is the close relative of a leek. Both these a look have the same Latin name – Alliumporrum.
On plantations of the USA elephant garlic land in the autumn – since the end of September on the beginning of November. In Holland this culture land at the end of October – the beginning of November or in March. Autumn landing is carried out so that to approach of colds the elevated part of a plant didn’t exceed 10 see.
In the spring of a plant develop very quickly. Form the wide leaves covered with a wax raid and to 50 cm arrows which by commodity production it is necessary to delete. The vegetative period at the garlic landed in the autumn, comes to the end towards the end of July (at landed in the spring – later).
Cleaning make in a pozhelteniye of leaves. Heads clear of an elevated part and external cheshuek. They can be stored in a cold and dry place till 8 months.
The American and British experience testifies that elephant garlic was quickly popularized as it simply associated with usual garlic, only the huge sizes.
Its distribution constrains that the landing material is necessary for delivering from the USA.
Transfer from the Polish V. Harenko
(On Ovoshchevodstvo magazine materials).