Shooting winter varieties of garlic are especially popular. The convenience is that they are planted before winter and in the spring, at the height of the planting season, saving precious time. Petrovsky garlic is a mid-season variety with excellent commercial and taste characteristics.
Description of the variety
Petrovsky is a universal-purpose garlic variety with medium ripening periods. A arrowing species used for planting before winter. It has high yields and is well stored. The heads are flat shaped and the same size. The weight of one of them reaches 75 grams.6–8 cloves are formed on each bulb.
The taste of Petrovsky garlic is excellent, the pungency is strong. When dry, the scales take on a grayish color with purple stripes. The pulp is dense and at the stage of technical ripeness has a light brown color.
Growing
Domestic gardeners have accumulated a lot of experience regarding how and where it is best to grow Petrovsky bolting garlic. The description of the variety recommends selecting fertile soil with sufficient nutrients and fertilizers for these purposes. The ideal option would be soil with a neutral acidity level. The bed should be located in a sunny and dry place.
Planting of Petrovsky garlic before winter begins at least a couple of weeks, and preferably a month before the onset of frost. The cloves must be able to take root, otherwise they will not survive the winter. Furrows up to 8 cm deep are made in the bed. The distance between the rows is 25 cm. The cloves are planted at a distance of 9 cm from each other. A couple of weeks after planting, the beds are mulched.
Features of care
In the spring, when the first shoots of Petrovsky garlic appear in the garden bed, the first weeding is carried out. Irrigation of the site begins in May and ends by the end of June or beginning of July. A couple of weeks before the expected harvest, watering is completely stopped.
During the formation of the third leaf, Petrovsky garlic is fertilized with urea. After a couple of weeks, nitroammophoska is added. At the end of June, when the plant forms a head, a final fertilizing with superphosphate is performed.
Advantages and disadvantages
Garlic of the Petrovsky variety has a lot of advantages that set it apart from its competitors. Among them:
- universal variety;
- large head;
- excellent spicy taste;
- high productivity;
- heads of the same size;
- resistance to major types of diseases;
- suitability for long-term storage and transportation.
Petrovsky has no significant drawbacks, but some gardeners believe that it is quite demanding in terms of care and growing conditions, if not met, productivity may suffer.
Pests and diseases
Despite the fact that Petrovsky exhibits increased resistance to the main types of diseases and pests, some of them can cause trouble for gardeners. Garlic is affected by the same pests as onions.
In most cases, for prevention before planting, the beds are dug as deep as possible and in no case are plants planted in one place for several years in a row. Dry ash should be scattered between the rows.
For prevention pests and diseases of garlic Tobacco dust is effectively used to dust plants after rain or after dew. An infusion of mustard powder or a decoction of hot pepper is also prepared.
Harvest and storage
According to popular belief, they try to remove garlic before the Feast of Peter and Paul, which falls on July 12. The Petrovsky variety can be harvested at the moment when 3 leaves on the plants turn yellow. This should not be done before, as unripe heads will not be stored well. And when garlic is overexposed in the garden, it crumbles when dug up and is easily injured, which also does not have the best effect on its further preservation.
They try to use Petrovsky's harvest before the beginning of January. Further, the teeth will lose their marketability and taste. Garlic should be stored in a cool, dark room with medium or low humidity.
Reviews from gardeners
Petrovsky garlic has long taken root in the garden beds of summer residents and farmers’ fields. They have managed to accumulate certain experience and knowledge in its cultivation and are happy to share their feedback about this culture.
Antonina Fedorovna, an experienced summer resident: “My son brought me the Petrovsky variety of garlic to my dacha. He loves spicy varieties, so a friend recommended that he try Petrovsky and gave him several heads for breeding. To be honest, I didn’t pay much attention to this crop, so my harvest didn’t set any records. But all season, my family and I happily ate our garlic and made small reserves for the winter. Now I always allocate space on the plot for this variety.”
Valentin Pavlovich, farmer: “I grow Petrovsky garlic because the yield is the same size, with good marketability and taste. In addition, this variety stores well. In my case, these issues are a priority, and I am even ready to turn a blind eye to the plants’ demands for care and timely application of fertilizers.”
Olga Sergeevna, owner of a private plot: “We plant several varieties of garlic with different ripening periods. Our family loves dishes with spicy seasonings, so Petrovsky immediately attracted our attention. For the first time, a neighbor in the area gave it to us to try, but she made a reservation that in order to obtain maximum yield we would have to work hard. I followed all the recommendations, weeded the beds, fertilized and watered them. The result turned out great. It was a pleasant surprise that the harvest was preserved almost until March. This doesn’t even happen with every late variety. Now Petrovsky has become our favorite variety, and we will definitely plant it next season.”
Anzhelika Anatolyevna, summer resident: “I constantly plant garlic for my needs. I don’t pay much attention to varieties; I buy seed material at the store. One day I came across the Petrovsky variety, which was recommended to be planted before winter. Unfortunately, in the fall I was hospitalized and did not have time to plant the teeth in the garden before the onset of frost. Distressed, I decided to try to save my garlic until spring and plant it when it warms up. I don’t even know if this is the norm or an exception, but my Petrovsky yielded a good harvest. I had never been able to achieve such results before, even when planting cloves before winter. I was pleasantly surprised and now I try to constantly purchase this particular variety.”
