Topic: feeding garlic?

[Sarah-b]

Hi everyone - just got back from a great day on the plot. I'm very excited as the garlic is looking really great. Would a feed of any kind do it more good? or should I just leave it alone?

Thanks,
Sarah.

[Lady Cosmos]

My winter garlic ( put in in october) I feed with "some"horse manure from March on.
Having free drainage, sandy soil, and putting in compost/ or leaf mould in soil before planting, and having enough nutrient in the soil than I put in every 14 days a light fertilizer, f i a bit manure or liquid manure. I keep the weeds away, very careful by hand and when the soil gets very dry ( when o when will that be?) I water, spec. when the leaves are developing.

[tim]

I know I've said it before, but the Garlic Farm say 2oz Potash in February. Not really too late??

[Debs]

Lucky you Sarah!

The weather here ( oop North east coast ) has been awful and did

not entice me to my lottie which would have been a mud bath due to the rain :'(

Shall be there any time after work this week - lighter nights YIPPEE!!!

Debs

[philcooper]

FYM as above and some fish blood and bone now

Phil

[aquilegia]

I chucked some pelletted chicken manure at mine about a week ago. When should I give it some more?

[philcooper]

Aqui,

Pelleted chicken manure is usually high in nitrogen so I wouldn't give it more - as Tim says potash is the thing use, bone meal it stays around longer than the chemical stuff which leaches out easily

phil

[aquilegia]

Oh heck. I must learn to read the labels.

So tomato feed it is, then???

[philcooper]

That should be ok, Aqui, unfortunately alliums, cos of their leaves, don't take up much goodness through them. But it will get in through the roots

phil