My full garlic process! 🧄🧄
October 15th of 2023 I planted 3 varieties of garlic!
- I planted elephant garlic. 🧄 considered a leek but grown the same as garlic and has a mild garlic flavor but produces a huge bulb!
- Music 🎶, hardneck variety. Proven to do well in my climate and has a long storage life of 8-12 months!!
- Chesnok red 🔴, hardneck variety. It produces fewer cloves, but they are larger. Perfect for infused oils!! I am super excited for this! 🤤
Garlic is a long-season crop, meaning it takes 180-210 days from planting to harvest!
When I planted my garlic, I gave it a good fertilization soak to provide the cloves with all the nutrients they would need for winter!
Once spring, sprung I started a schedule of Nitrogen fertilizer feedings. Garlic is a super heavy Nitrogen feeder! So consider if you want to add blood meal, fish emulsion, or another fertilizer heavy in N or if you will be Interplanting legumes 🫘🫘🫘 (natural nitrogen soil fixers)!
If using fertilizer, on either side, dress the garlic 3-4” from the plant and an inch deep. (Be sure to read the directions on your fertilizer to determine how much to use! Using too much fertilizer is NOT a good thing. It can stunt or burn your plant!) The other option is to broadcast over the entire growing area! And, of course, be sure to water 💦 it in! The feeding should be done every 2-4 weeks. (Info on the frequency of feeding varies from source to source.)
Around June or when you see scapes appear, stop ✋🏻 fertilizing your garlic! Nitrogen is meant to promote leafy growth! Once the scapes appear, your garlic is ready to start forming bulbs underground!! Pick scapes when tender and have begun to curl! ( I have heard these are incredibly tasty!) Picking the scapes ensures your plants put their energy towards the bulb and not towards producing flowers!!!!
Once the bottom sets of leaves about 50% die off, it is time to harvest your garlic! I harvested this year's garlic on June 18th! 🧄 If you want to store them, let them dry in a well-ventilated area, NOT in the sun, for about 3 weeks!!
My garlic was in the ground for a total of 247 days!
Cheers to some beautiful garlic in your future!
Негізгі бет Garlic start to finish! 🧄🧄🧄
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