Why garlic rotates.

Why garlic rotet

For the past two years, the spring (summer) garlic grows small and almost all rotates when stored. First, brown spots appear on the teeth, then the mold of a greenish shade. As a result, the bulb dies. What is the disease and how to deal with it?

It is a green (blue) mold. It manifests itself in 2-3 months after booking garlic for storage. Light yellow stains are replaced by mold, fade outdoor, and then the inner teeth, and all of them, in the end, turn into a drunk mass. The development of mold contributes to the focus, mechanical damage of garlic, increased humidity during storage. The causative agent of the disease can be maintained both on the planting material and in the soil on plant residues.
Measures of struggle:
Compliance with the rules of crop rotation (the return of the culture to the former place no earlier than in 4 years).
Using a healthy planting material. For 1.5-2 months of landing dry warming at a temperature of 40-45 degrees. (10-15 hours). Before the landing of the teeth was washed in a solution of the cooking salt (3 stl. At 5 cells) for 1-2 minutes. Then they are shifted into a solution of copper sulfate (1 tbsp. On 10 liters of water) or in a pink milgantaneous solution for 1 min. After that, not washing, planted in bed.
You can apply another way to prepare garlic to landing: Top to hold 10 minutes. In the solution of formalin (2 tbsp. on 10 liters of water), and then 2 hours to cover the burlap, then ventilate and plant.
Clean garlic in dry weather with the mandatory drying of the harvest under the canopy for 6-8 days. Many stored garlic in cardboard boxes, the production of packaging from cardboard for storage of garlic will not take much time, you only need a tape, cardboard boxes and some intuziasm.
The optimal temperature for storage is 2-3 degrees., At a humidity of 70-80%.