Green Garlic Growth Characteristics
Green Garlic is a product of white pseudostems (leaf sheaths) and young tender leaves.
From the time after the seed garlic cloves are released from dormancy until the cloves lose the ability to make seeds, garlic seedlings can be sown and cultivated at any time.
In the central region of China, seeds can be sown at any time from mid-to-late August to March of the following year.
Cultivating green garlic in winter requires covering to prevent freezing.
By cultivating multiple crops, green garlic can be supplied for up to eight months (October to May).
Cool weather favors high yield and quality of green garlic.
The growth rate of green garlic is affected by temperature.
When the average daily temperature is 13 to 20 ℃, 45 to 50 days after sowing to reach the harvest standard.
When the average daily temperature is 7 to 13 ℃, 75 to 80 days after sowing to reach the harvest standard.
If the green garlic in the environment of 0 to 7 ℃, the seedlings basically stop growing, only play the role of pseudo-planting storage.
Green garlic cultivation is divided into open field cultivation and protected cultivation.
Green garlic planting skills
1, select varieties
A variety of garlic varieties of garlic cloves can be used for cultivation of green garlic, but it is better to choose a short period of dormancy, fast seedling emergence, seedling growth, pseudostem thick and long, leaf broad fat, yellow leaves or dry tip phenomenon of light soft-leafed garlic types of varieties.
Currently in the actual production of garlic seeds to produce green garlic seedlings using large cloves.
2, sowing
Green garlic seedlings planting density is higher than the general garlic, fall and winter garlic can be sown at the same time as garlic plants, plant spacing of 5 cm x 16 cm, the size of the cloves spaced out.
Before sowing, the first bed will be fully watered, wait until the topsoil is loose that is sown, the depth of sowing should be appropriate to facilitate the emergence of seedlings.
The general sowing amount is 200~350 kilograms per mu.
①Straight sowing method
After the rain or watering, while the soil is wet, the garlic seed is first spread to the bed, and then according to a certain spacing between the flap, and the garlic cloves pressed into the soil, the depth of the garlic cloves to the top of the cloves and the ground flush is appropriate.
Saving labor, sowing high quality, growing green garlic straight, good quality.
②The furrow sowing method
With a hoe and other row spacing to open a shallow ditch, the garlic cloves according to a certain spacing and direction of point sowing in the ditch, after sowing with a rake to level the ditch, covered with 2 cm of soil, and then watered thoroughly.
3, field management
(1) watering
Autumn green garlic is generally every 2 to 3 days watering, until the garlic seedlings out of the full.
Watering time can be in the evening or in the morning before 8 o'clock, to the ground cool watering good, each watering amount should not be too much.
(2) Fertilizer
If the nursery beds have enough base fertilizer, there is no need for fertilizer during the growing period.
After the garlic seedlings come out, the absorption of fertilizer gradually increased, generally when the seedlings come out to harvest, to chase the fertilizer 2 to 3 times, each time each mu of ammonium sulfate about 15 kg.
(3) Cultivation
Garlic seedlings out of the flush when watering a thorough water, water seeped down after spreading a layer of fine soil, thick 5 cm or so.
The depth of the soil should be based on the growth of green garlic.
If the growth is robust, you can later cultivate the soil once again.
Cultivation of a green garlic seedlings pseudostem length of about 10 centimeters, cultivation of two pseudostem length of about 15 centimeters, and later can be according to the market demand for successive listing.
4, harvest
Garlic seedlings grow to 20 cm or more, can be successively selected in batches, or every other plant harvest, harvest and then apply fertilizer to promote growth.
Harvesting methods, generally 1 time uprooted, cleaned soil debris on the market; you can also choose a sunny day at 3 cm from the ground with a knife to cut seedlings for harvesting, after harvesting to strengthen the fertilizer management.
Such 2 harvest, mu yield can be increased from 2000 kg to 3500-4000 kg.
The above is how to plant green garlic, green garlic planting skills points! I hope it can help you in your daily life,