Name: Unleashing the Magic of Garlic: From Kitchen Marvel to Health Hero! 🌿 |
SKU: garlic
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Scientific name	Allium sativum
Common name	Garlic
Temperature requirement	25-35 °C
Humidity	40-50%
Light	Full sun
Watering	Water everyday & keep moist
Pests	Bulb mites,leafminers.Nematodes. Onion maggots.
Pet friendliness	Not hazardous
Maximum plant height	30-100 cm
Potting mix	Potting soil/red soil/manure/perlite
Pot requirement	Good drainage & repot every 1-2 years
Nutrition	Apply manure for first 15 days and npk for next 15 days
Pruning & training	Remove dead & diseased leaves with sterile shears
Common color & season
Description	Garlic does best with a sandy or clay loam with very good drainage and a ph of 6.0-8.4, With 6.8 Optimum. Onion maggots thrive if the soil is alkaline, so it pays to watch the acidity. A rotation of at least five years away from alliums is a good practice to reduce the likelihood of disease. Generally 1-2″ of water per week during the growing season (not during the winter), is about right, until the leaves start to yellow and the bulbs start to dry down, when irrigation should be stopped.Fertile soil with lots of organic matter and a full range of nutrients is needed to grow good garlic, and so is full sun. Most growers spread compost or soybean meal at planting time. Foliar feeding, although recommended by some sources, provides no gain in yield if the soil had adequate fertility at planting time. Also, it is technically tricky to get foliar fertilizers to stick on the waxy near-vertical garlic leaves – it tends to run off, so a good spreader-sticker is essential. And foliar feeding (or side-dressing with compost or organic fertilizers) is wasted after the fifth leaf, and certainly after the bulb starts to enlarge.