Container Gardens
Grow Your Own Garlic
Garlic is a spice you love to include on your food. It adds that special flavour to gravies, tomato sauces, soups, stews, pickles, salads, dressing and bread. Thus it’s only logical that you should be growing organic garlic in your own vegetable garden.
Before beginning to grow garlic, it is always best to have a knowledge on how garlic is planted and maintained. Here is a quick look at how to grow garlic.
Loamy soil improved with organic matter gives a acceptable environment for planting garlic. If you’re familiar with growing onions, then you won’t get lost in growing garlic since their cultivation is alike. Generally, 3 pounds of 10-10-10 fertilizer is commended for each 100 sq. feet.
You may use manure or compost each year to keep the soils nutritional content in balance for growing garlic. Likewise, the soil should hold the right amount of moisture to avoid getting bulbs of irregular shapes. Take note that irregular bulbs will also be produced in clay soil.
The time of planting is also vital to the expansion of garlic. This crop grows best on long days and warm temperatures. Additionally, you must also plant the cloves early to allow for the development of the leaves and the stems during short and cool days. Growing garlic during this time of the year ensures a good harvest at the conclusion of the growing season.
In planting the garlic cloves, they should be placed 3 to five inches away from each other and a half to an inch deep. Ensure that they are in an upright position in the row. Remember a reduced yield will occur when the bulbs are divided into cloves long before they are planted. This causes the cloves to dry up and become not suitable for planting.
Being aware of when to crop this pleasant vegetable is simple. You only need to see if the apex of the bulb is starting to dry. This reveals that the garlic is ready for cropping. In cropping, don’t pull the garlic to avoid hurting the stem. Rather, dig them up and let them dry.
Garlic is an essential item in the kitchen so it’s necessary to include them in a plant garden. In growing this tasty crop, these are elementary things that you need to know. It involves soil requirements, time of planting, spatial requirements, and methodology of cropping. After getting a birds eye view on these concerns, you are now ready to start planting and growing gardlic in your own garden.
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