When to plant winter garlic in 2021: the timing of autumn planting in the regions and favorable days according to the lunar calendar

For the first time you decided to plant garlic in the fall and can't decide on the time for planting?

Well, we hope this material will help you figure out when is the best time to plant winter garlic in the fall, including in different regions and according to the Lunar calendar in 2021.

When to plant winter garlic in the fall: optimal timing

As a rule, they begin to plant winter garlic about 1-2 weeks before the first night frost or 3-4 weeks before the soil freezes. This time should be just enough for the initial rooting of the teeth.

Note! Garlic during this period only the root system needs to developbut no way non-aerial green mass.

If you plant garlic too earlywhen it is still warm, then it is necessary sprout.

By the way! It's okay if the garlic has small sprouts.

It is another matter if feathers of 5 or more centimeters are formed. In this case, garlic will hardly be able to survive the winter, especially the snowless one.

How to be? Try to mulch.

If you plant too latethen he can do not have time to take root, which means, most likely, it will freeze again in winter.

Therefore, you should not rush, but also constantly put off until tomorrow - the idea is also clearly not the best.

If autumn is warm, then planting is better to postpone. Although, for example, an earlier cold snap is by no means a guarantee that the heat will not return.

With regard to the optimal soil temperature for autumn planting of garlic, it is recommended to plant cloves only after lowering the temperature to +5 degrees... Wherein according to the weather forecast should be expected anyway steady decline to zero and below.

Important! But you can't plant in frozen ground!

Folk signs and landmarks

Each gardener is guided by his own observations. However, some, for example, are sure that the best garlic is obtained if it is planted before the holiday of the Intercession... Others, on the contrary, try to plant after the holiday.

We remind you! The cover of the day falls on October 14.

One more old omen - plant garlic when geese will begin to fly south (i.e. not earlier than October).

Approximate terms in the regions

Obviously, the timing of planting garlic in the fall directly depends on climatic zone featureswhere you live, as well as from weather conditions of the current year... But you can still name the approximate dates:

• Southern regions - end of October-November month.
• Middle lane (Moscow region) - from late September to early October until the first half of the month; in the case of warm autumn - the second half of October - the first days of November.
• Northern regions (Ural, Siberia), and North-West (Leningrad Region) - the second half of September - early October, the deadline is the first half of October.

According to the lunar calendar for 2021

If you want to choose a specific day for planting, you can use the sowing lunar calendar, if, of course, you trust him.

So, favorable days for planting garlic before winter according to the lunar calendar in 2021 are as follows:

• in September - 24-26;
• in October - 3-6, 8-11, 13-15, 18-23, 26-28;
• in November - 5-9, 22-24.

It is worth considering! It is not always possible to plant garlic precisely in a favorable period, however there are dates (days of the Full Moon and New moons, as well as the period when the Moon is in Aquarius, because it is a barren and dry sign - italicized), according to the lunar calendar, when it is completely undesirable to do this in 2021.

Unfavorable days for the autumn planting of garlic, according to the lunar calendar, in 2021:

• in January - 13, 14-15, 28;
• in February - 10-11, 27;
• in March - 9-10, 13, 28;
• in April - 5-6, 12, 27;
• in May - 2-4, 11, 26, 30-31;
• in June - 10, 24, 26-27;
• in July - 10, 24-25 (24 - also Full Moon);
• in August - 8, 20-21, 22;
• in September - 7, 16-17, 21;
• in October - 6, 13-15, 20;
• In November - 5, 10-11, 19;
• in December - 4, 7-8, 19.

How to properly plant garlic for the winter: useful materials on the topic

On the site you can also find all the necessary materials for the correct planting of winter garlic, namely:

• when and how to prepare the garden (what to add to the soil, what fertilizers);

Also worth take into account predecessors, or rather know after what crops is it best to plant garlic.

• how to prepare garlic cloves, how to process them (best dressing agents);
• how to directly plant the cloves in the garden (to what depth).

A question for readers: “What do you focus on when choosing the time to plant winter garlic?«.