Processing garlic with ammonia: how to feed and water?

The popularity of folk recipes for vegetable care is growing among summer residents. Feeding garlic with ammonia helps many grow vigorous heads. Many people will need useful information about how to use an inexpensive pharmacy drug.

Useful properties

Ammonia is obtained by combining ammonia with water. Ammonia is a colorless gas with a very unpleasant odour. You can buy a bottle of ammonia at any pharmacy. It is produced in the form of a 10% solution. The label may say "Ammonia" or "Ammonia". In both cases, it is the same remedy.

From the ammonia formula NH₄OH it is clear that the composition contains nitrogen (N). This chemical element is essential for all plants to grow. Vegetables can absorb nitrogen from the soil, and not in its pure form, but in the form of a compound.

The benefits of ammonia are not only in the high concentration of nitrogen. With its pungent odor, it repels pests from plants. Insects encroaching on garlic are also afraid of him:

onion fly;
carrot fly;
aphid;
wireworm;
weevil.

Yellow leaves on garlic is the first sign that pests have started in the garden. Using ammonia water, you can solve two problems: feed the growing garlic with nitrogen, rid it of pests.

Why do so many people choose ammonia?

Someone will disagree and say that there are a large number of nitrogen-containing fertilizers and various insecticides to solve these problems. This is true, but the main advantage of feeding garlic with ammonia is the absence of nitrates in the crop.For many, the desire to grow organic vegetables is the main goal, so they choose ammonia.

Let's list the benefits they receive:

no nitrogen accumulation in heads;
cost savings, because the drug is cheap, its processing costs are low;
nitrogen contained in ammonia is easily absorbed, as can be seen from the juicy, bright green feather and pouring heads;
you can not be afraid of overfeeding garlic with nitrogen, this 100% will not happen.

The main rule of an experienced gardener is not to fix the problem, but to prevent it. Don't wait for yellow garlic feathers to appear in your garden, use our garlic ammonia recipes and forget about the problems.

How to feed garlic with ammonia?

You need to stick to the recipe even when using safe substances as fertilizer. Consider separately the method of diluting ammonia for dressing garlic and the recipe for preparing a solution with which garlic is watered from pests.

Recipe for pests

This recipe can be used for onions, both crops suffer from the same insects. The recipe calls for ammonia, soap and water. Soap agent should be added to the aqueous solution necessarily. Gardeners prefer 72% laundry soap. It must first be rubbed on a grater with small holes.

For cooking, take a 10-liter bucket of water. To obtain a working fluid, take 100 g of grated soap and 50 ml of ammonia. Soap shavings are diluted with a small amount of hot water and only then poured into a bucket. The solution should be mixed well before use and immediately proceed to processing.

Important! Use the prepared solution immediately before the ammonia evaporates from it.

You will need a sprayer to work. Pests will need to spray the entire feather of garlic. It does not matter if the solution remains, they can process cabbage from cruciferous flea or aphids. During the summer of the carrot fly, treatment with ammonia will protect the carrot beds. One treatment is not enough, it will need to be repeated 2-3 more times.

Preparing fertilizer

You need to feed the garlic with ammonia every 2 weeks, without waiting for signs of nitrogen starvation. During the summer, alternate the root and foliar form of fertilization. For example, winter garlic (planted in autumn) is watered with ammonia in the spring 2 weeks after the appearance of the feather. At the end of June, water the garlic bed for the last time.

For the prevention of nitrogen starvation, a solution of ammonia of low concentration is prepared. 2 tablespoons of the drug are enough for a bucket of water. Water garlic early in the morning or in the evening after 17-00, this also applies to the treatment of feathers from pests. Watering in sunny weather can cause leaf scorch.

Signs of nitrogen starvation

How to understand that there is not enough nitrogen in the soil and garlic needs fertilizer. Like any other vegetable crop, it signals a problem with external manifestations. We list the main signs of nitrogen deficiency:

small feathers;
slow head formation;
sluggish, yellowed, feather;
pale stem color.

The yellow color of the leaves sometimes signals a lack of iron, and also if the summer resident rarely waters the garlic bed and the soil often dries up. The difference between nitrogen starvation is the yellowing of old leaves in the first place, young ones in the second.

Let's figure out why a lack of nitrogen is dangerous for a crop. You will not be able to get a good harvest. Due to the gradual yellowing of the leaves, less nutrients are supplied to the head, they are not enough to form a full-fledged head.

Help. In low-nitrogen soil, weeds have red streaks.

Nitrogen deficiency is most common in acidic soils. Finding out the pH of the soil in your area is easy. For this purpose, litmus paper is commercially available. And even better if there is a special device for determining acidity in everyday life. They are inexpensive and always on sale. Adjusting the acidity of the soil will help increase the yield of garlic.

Helpful tips

In gardening, the advice of experienced summer residents will never hurt. Sometimes small things make a big difference. There are such features in ammonia feeding. Knowing about the high volatility of the substance, experienced summer residents sprinkle the garden with garlic with earth immediately after watering with fertilizer.

Garlic is winter (planted before winter) and spring (planted in spring). The timing of their watering with ammonia varies. Winter is fertilized for the first time when it has just hatched from the ground, spring - only after 5-6 feathers have formed in it.

In emergency cases, with acute signs of nitrogen starvation, it is advised to apply a fertilizer containing a loading dose of ammonia. For 1 liter of water take 1 tbsp. l. funds. Watering is carried out between rows. This measure is resorted to in the most extreme cases.

Another piece of advice regarding landing. Garlic does not grow well in heavy clay soils. Sand can improve the situation. It can be added to the bottom of the hole when planting and fill the head from above. The trick is small, but effective.

How else to feed the garlic?

Ammonia is not the only remedy that summer residents use when growing garlic.Grass is considered a good supplier of nitrogen, you can find it in any country house. Grass mowed on the lawn and ordinary weeds will do. Chopped grass must first be chopped, then fill it with 2/3 of the total volume.

Fill the barrel to the top with water and leave to ferment for 2 weeks. Stir the contents of the barrel 2-3 times during this period. Ready infusion is considered a concentrated fertilizer. In its pure form, it is not used, it is customary to dilute it with water in a ratio of 1:10. You can feed the garlic with this herbal fertilizer in June, later it is not recommended to do this, since potassium and phosphorus will be needed to form the heads.

Conclusion

In conclusion, one more simple advice. Grow garlic in one place for no more than 2 years. After that, plant other vegetables on this ridge for 3 years. Gourds will be excellent predecessors: zucchini, pumpkins and vegetables such as beans, cabbage, beans and peas.It grows well after strawberries.

Autumn planting wiki will not hurt. Vika is a legume related to green manure. In the process of growth, it loosens the soil, nourishes it with nitrogen, cleanses it of infections, pests and weeds. He althy top dressing, properly prepared soil will provide you with large heads of garlic for the whole winter.