Garden Tips & Resources

The spice called garlic is something you like to put in your recipes.  It adds that unique flavour to tomato sauces, salads, gravies, soups and bread.  Hence it is just logical that you should be growing garlic in your own vegetable garden.

Before beginning to grow garlic in your garden, it is recommended that you have an idea on how garlic is planted and maintained.  Here is a quick look on how garlic is grown.

Loamy soil improved with organic matter provides a acceptable environment for planting garlic.  If you’re familiar with growing onions, then you will not get lost in growing garlic since their cultivation is fairly similar.  Generally, 3 pounds of 10-10-10 manure is recommended for each hundred square feet.

You may also use fertilizer or compost each year to keep the soils nutritional content in balance for growing garlic.  Likewise, the soil should hold enough moisture to avoid getting bulbs of irregular shapes.  Take note that clay soil will also produce irregular bulbs.

The time of planting is also vital to the growth of garlic.  This crop grows best on long days and warm temperatures.  In addition, you must also plant the cloves early to make allowance for the development of the leaves and the stems during short and cool days.  Growing garlic during this time of the year makes sure a good crop at the end of the growing season.

In planting the garlic cloves, they should be placed 3 to five inches away from each other and a half to an inch deep.  Make sure that they’re in an upright position in the row.  Remember a decreased yield will occur when the bulbs are divided into cloves long before they are planted.  This will cause the cloves to dry up and become unsuited for planting.

Knowing when to harvest this pleasant plant is straightforward.  You only need to work out if the top of the bulb starts to dry.  This indicates that the garlic is prepared for cropping.  In cropping, don’t pull the garlic to avoid damaging the stem.  Rather, dig them up and allow them to dry.

Garlic is an indispensable ingredient in the kitchen so it’s necessary to include them in a vegetable garden.  In planting this flavorsome crop, these are basic things that you need to grasp.  It involves soil needs, time of planting, spatial wants, and method of cropping.  After getting a birds eye view on these issues, you are now ready to start planting and growing gardlic yourself.

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