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anetta starts with ... i purchased some elephant garlic from you a couple of years ago. i planted at the end of april in a arid climate, feeding with dynamic lifter when sowing and then potash from the fireplace throughout winter with good results at harvest!. Unfortunately this year i repeated the same process and the cloves have only turned into smallish rounds..... Should i harvest and plant these again next year or leave them in the ground for another 12 months... | About the Author anetta moree 26th November 2019 2:10pm #UserID: 21287 Posts: 1 View All anetta's Edible Fruit Trees |
Fruitylicious1 says... Hi Anetta If you planted your garlic in the same spot as previously, the cloves will be smaller because they have already exhausted the inherent available nutrients in the soil even though you have amended the soil. Best way is plant in another spot where no garlic and its relatives have been planted before. As per usual amend the soil with chicken or cow manure, compost, and gypsum for sulphur for bigger cloves mulch well with straw or leaf litter and water regularly when the bulbs have sprouted. Be sure to remove the scapes or flower heads before they open to let the bulbs grow bigger. You can also leave the cloves as it is and harvest only the biggest ones, but over time it will become crowded and the cloves will become smaller. So if you are after healthy plumper cloves treat them as annuals but plant them in a different spot each time. If you run out of spot plant them in big pots. You can only return to the same area after 4 years. Use the land to plant non allium species. This is called crop rotation. Happy gardening 😎 | About the Author Fruitylicious1 TAMWORTH,2340,NSW 17th December 2019 5:52am #UserID: 16885 Posts: 709 View All Fruitylicious1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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