feeding garlic

[debster]

i trawled through all the veg advice sites and marked in my diary what i should be doing and when, well  i wrote that this week i should be feeding my garlic but what should i be feeding them?

[debster]

[betula]

Garlic only normally needs fertiliser in the ground a few weeks before planting :)

[debster]

oh ok dont know where i saw that then

[grawrc]

I think garlic appreciates potash and also a quick burst o nitrogen to get it going in the spring time.

[Sparkly]

Can you recommend exactly what to add and the quantity? Our garlic is looking slighly yellow on the tips? Is this nitrogen deficiency?

[grawrc]

errm ... I think it's potash...

[redimp]

Chicken poo at the end of March, early April to give it a nitrogen boost so it throws up lots of leaves and then potash in the summer so the bulbs get big - or alternatively, let the weeds grow in summer to rob the soil of excess nitrogen from the chicken poo.

[Sparkly]

I have never used any fertilisers before, but I thought potash was potassium salts? I was thinking about a source of nitrogen? What about organic options?

[Sparkly]

thanks, redclanger!

[betula]

If you apply too much Nitrogen all the energies of the plant will go into the production of the leaves.
A well manured soil should not need too much potash.Only my opinion of course :)

[grawrc]

Yellowing leaves? suggests not all is well

[Ant]

Just had a quick mooch and found here:
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/cropsystems/DC7317.html
that it definitely looks like a nitrogen deficiency.

Looking at our pictures, the garlic in the areas where the peas and beans were are fine... the ones where the spuds were are suffering a bit.

Ah well, will get some fertiliser on it in the next couple of days  :)

[wiltshire lass]

did nt know you were ment to feed garlic.i planted mine in jan and they have come up.i think they look ok.
at what stage should you feed them?

[Robert_Brenchley]

Wait till it warms up and the plants are growing again.

[springbok]

I fed my garlic growmore last week as it was suggested in Garden Amateur magazine.
They suggested growmore too.
Maybe thats where you read to feed them :)

[Truffle]

We grow ours in a sandy bed and feed with blood, fish and bone and they grow huge... seems like a good combo?

[Deb P]

I used the pelleted chicken manure on mine last year, can't use blood or bonemeal as our site's many foxes go bonkers digging where you have put it.... ::)

[tim]

http://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/garlicgrow.asp

Funny - thought he used to use Potash?? I took his advice!

[djbrenton]

I've always considered garlic and onions to like potash around this time of year.

[Barnowl]

I sprinkled sulphate of potash around mine in late February this year - must have read somewhere to do that.