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?
Garlic only normally needs fertiliser in the ground a few weeks before planting :)
oh ok dont know where i saw that then
I think garlic appreciates potash and also a quick burst o nitrogen to get it going in the spring time.
Can you recommend exactly what to add and the quantity? Our garlic is looking slighly yellow on the tips? Is this nitrogen deficiency?
errm ... I think it's potash...
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.
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?
thanks, redclanger!
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 :)
Yellowing leaves? suggests not all is well
Just had a quick mooch and found here:
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/cropsystems/DC7317.html (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 :)
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?
Wait till it warms up and the plants are growing again.
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 :)
We grow ours in a sandy bed and feed with blood, fish and bone and they grow huge... seems like a good combo?
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.... ::)
http://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/garlicgrow.asp
Funny - thought he used to use Potash?? I took his advice!
I've always considered garlic and onions to like potash around this time of year.
I sprinkled sulphate of potash around mine in late February this year - must have read somewhere to do that.
I'll be using bonfire ash on mine, a little later in the season. I don't see any point before the plants are growing strongly.
Week 12-13; Boost growth by hoeing in nitro-chalk or sulphate of ammonia at a rate of 1oz (30g) per sq m to, or alternatively, 3oz (90g) per sq m of growmore.
No good gardening by numbers though; if you use it when the plants aren't growing, then some of it at least will leach out and be wasted because the roots aren't busy taking it up.