What is the difference between garlic and green garlic? Good question. What is the difference? To be clear, isn't green garlic the teenage to prime years of garlic? The story of childhood.
The main difference lies in the grower's purpose is different, garlic has a strict sowing period, or spring planting or fall sowing, spring sowing is generally sown in March?April, 6?July harvest garlic shoots, 7?August harvest garlic. Autumn sowing in most areas is generally sown during September?October, individual areas in mid to late August to start sowing, garlic shoots are generally harvested in the following year's 4?June, garlic shoots harvested 20?30 days after the harvest planing garlic, mainly to obtain garlic shoots and garlic head.
Instead, green garlic is harvested mainly for garlic shoots, without harvesting garlic shoots and garlic heads, and depending on how early or late the harvesting period is required, seeds can be sown from July?October, and green garlic shoots can be harvested and eaten from August to May of the following year.
You can also produce another big-ring product called garlic yellow, which is a special cultivation of garlic softening that uses its own nutrients to turn green garlic seedlings yellow due to lack of chlorophyll under lightless conditions.
This is the difference between garlic and green garlic. Another difference is the light requirements, the general sunshine time of 12 hours below the warm environment cultivated garlic, can not form garlic, but the leaves grow very quickly, so suitable for the cultivation of green garlic, so the northern region in the summer before the arrival of long sunshine, can be harvested before the green garlic put on the market, and is still a very high quality of green garlic products.
Well, about the garlic and its childhood story on these. The following into the second topic, about the growth of garlic as a child? The cultivation technology of green garlic.
Green garlic is garlic seedlings, that is, the young leaves and leaf sheaths wrapped in garlic stalks as the edible part. Cultivated in the open ground in the north, there are mainly two crops of early garlic seedlings supplied before winter and late garlic seedlings supplied in early spring.
Protected land production of garlic seedlings, often using sun beds or improved sun beds, plastic small arch, medium arch or large arch in the late fall, early winter and early spring for green garlic cultivation. Like we have seen goods here, because there are winter warm greenhouse cultivation of strawberries, farmers will be in the shed of the sunrise side of the shed side sowing a row or two rows of garlic, not only can they taste fresh, but also can sell two hair flower flower. You may even be able to cut a catty or two of the "second elder brother" meat to eat. You can dip the garlic cloves in the sauce, have a little wine, have a bite of the meat of the second elder brother, and look at the flowers of the strawberries you have just sold, so you may get drunk.
In addition, in winter, you can use the solar greenhouse greenhouse many times to produce garlic seedlings, and if you have the conditions, you can use a hotbed, and you can receive a crop in about a month. Separately to introduce several methods of cultivating garlic seedlings.
One, open field green garlic seedlings cultivation technology
1, sowing technology
Open field cultivation of green garlic season is very flexible, according to the sowing season and the supply of time can be divided into, autumn green garlic seedlings, fall and winter green garlic seedlings, spring green garlic seedlings and summer green garlic seedlings 4 categories, and in the northern region, is generally divided into only the early green garlic seedlings and late green garlic seedlings of two types, early green garlic seedlings in the pre-winter supply, late green garlic seedlings and the late green garlic seedlings are supplied in early spring.
Green garlic in the fall green garlic and fall and winter green garlic cultivation, the choice of varieties more stringent requirements, must choose short dormancy varieties, in order to seedling early, fast, Qi. Autumn green garlic in the autumn before sowing, the earliest sowing can be carried out in June, fall and winter green garlic is generally in mid-August to mid-September sowing, spring green garlic can be sown in September, summer green garlic can be sown in early to mid-February. In addition to summer green garlic, the rest of the green garlic sowing period has no obvious boundary, from the end of June to the end of September can be sown at any time according to market demand.
Cultivation of green garlic previous crop should not be leeks, onions and garlic crops, the requirements of the soil is not too strict, but still to sandy loam soil is preferred, and also to ventilation and cool, conducive to growth. Autumn sowing green garlic growing period is short, the growing period is in the summer, generally do not need to apply what base fertilizer. But in other seasons in the cultivation of green garlic, because of the longer growing period of reason, must pay attention to the application of adequate fertilizer, such as rotted pig manure and urine, human urine and other high-quality farm fertilizer, in the soil tilling evenly applied. Cultivation of green garlic seed treatment is the same as cultivation of garlic, seed selection and picking, etc.. In addition to autumn sowing green garlic, other seasons sowing green garlic are used in the way of strip sowing, row spacing is generally 15 cm, plant spacing of 10 cm or so, and autumn sowing green garlic because of the growth and development time is too short, the growth of fast, you can be full of dense sowing way to increase the yield.
Before sowing green garlic, it is usually watered thoroughly, and then the garlic cloves are inserted into the soil, the depth is the same as the height of the garlic cloves. But autumn sowing green garlic is different, to leave about half of the garlic cloves outside the soil, and to build a sunshade 1 meter away from the top of the bed. In order to prevent the strong light caused by the leaf fiber increase, aging, not fresh and tender and reduced edibility.
Autumn green garlic after sowing, should be every 1?2 days watering, until the seedlings come out. Autumn green garlic watering time should be carried out in the early morning, when the water cool ground cool, conducive to the development of the root system, the amount of watering each time should not be too much. Autumn green garlic in the flush to harvest before the need for fertilizer 2?3 times, fertilizer without organic fertilizer, to fast-acting nitrogen fertilizer is good, such as ammonium sulfate, urea and so on. Each time each mu with ammonium sulfate 10 kg, or urea 5?7.5 kg.
Autumn and winter green garlic, spring green garlic and summer green garlic, after sowing the lower temperature, generally need to water the bottom of the water, and then 2?3 times after the emergence of the seedling fertilizer, each time per acre of ammonium sulfate 15 kilograms, spring green garlic but also in the spring of the following year after the return of greening in the spring in time to chase the greening of the fertilizer once, 10 kilograms of ammonium sulfate per acre of ammonium sulfate, to encourage the garlic seedling to grow rapidly.
2, harvesting
The amount of green garlic harvested due to the sowing time of the early and late, the supply of the market time difference, there are significant differences. Generally fall green garlic short growing period, mu harvest is about 1000 kg, fall and winter green garlic yield is high, generally per mu can be harvested green garlic seedlings 2000?3500 kg, spring green garlic per mu can be harvested 2500?4000 kg, summer green garlic mu can be harvested 1000?1500 kg.
The above introduced the method of open field cultivation of green garlic seedlings, the following to see the method of protected cultivation of green garlic seedlings. Protected cultivation of green garlic seedlings can be used sun beds, plastic greenhouse or greenhouse cultivation.
Second, the protected cultivation of green garlic technology
1, the sun bed green garlic cultivation method
Use of the sun bed cultivation of green garlic seedlings can be in the middle and late August to the middle of September for sowing, in late October to the end of the next year before the end of January for the harvest. Winter is not too cold area, can be sown in late October to December, covered with thick straw mats or straw and other insulation against the cold, the next year's 1?March harvest.
Selected seed garlic soaked in water for 12?24 hours, fished out of the heap smothered for 8?12 hours or a day and night, remove the stem disk (garlic at the bottom of the hard knots) and garlic stalks (garlic shoots residual part), the whole head of garlic planted densely in a sunny bed, and then covered with soil, and then covered with a layer of soil after 3?4 days, flush seedling after fertilizer, watering. When the seedling height of about 30 centimeters can be harvested, which is like cutting leeks, the harvest is fine green garlic seedlings.
After harvesting the first crop of green garlic seedlings, fertilizer and watering when the seedlings are about 5 centimeters high, you can harvest the second crop after a month or so. You can also water and fertilize once around mid-October, and then support a small arch on the sun beds, and cover the straw mat at night after November to keep warm, which can delay the harvest of garlic seedlings.
2, greenhouse or greenhouse green garlic cultivation methods
Use of greenhouse or greenhouse cultivation of green garlic seedlings, generally in mid to late September to the next year's January at any time in the stubble seeding, harvested one after another. Ground preparation, mixed with a small amount of well-rotted organic fertilizer, cold land in the soil layer can be some hot fertilizer, such as horse manure. The bed first laid 4?6 cm thick sand, will be soaked and sorted out the garlic seeds planted closely in the bed. Small garlic head can be padded under the sand, so that the top flush, with loose garlic cloves to fill the gap, planted with a wooden board lightly pressed flat, so that the height of the growing point of garlic is consistent, convenient for later harvesting stubble neatly. Then cover with fine soil or clean soil 3 centimeters, water thoroughly.
4?5 days after sowing, garlic cloves rooted extruded garlic, and then step on the pressure once, covered with a layer of sand or fine soil, indoor daytime to maintain 25 ℃ or so, the night temperature of 18?20 ℃, and later with the growth of the garlic seedlings gradually reduce the temperature. When the garlic seedlings are about 30 centimeters high, keep the temperature at 16 ℃, 4?5 days before harvest, keep the temperature at 18?20 ℃ during the day, 10?15 ℃ at night to prevent high temperature and high humidity under the garlic seedling collapse.
In the garlic seedlings 6?10 cm or so, 15?20 cm or so and 4?5 days before harvest each watering, the first watering with diluted fertilizer to promote the growth of seedlings. After 30?40 days, seedlings can be harvested when their height reaches 30?40 centimeters and the tops of the leaves are slightly bent. After harvesting, gently sow the beds, repeat the previous management, and after 20 days or so you can harvest the second crop.
The greenhouse cultivation of green garlic seedlings, from August to September, according to market demand for successive sowing, most of the use of the greenhouse in the fall of the low place between the planting of garlic seedlings, with the main crop management. Pure green garlic seedlings, the shed temperature is not less than 16 ℃, the cold period of the shed and then set up a small arch insulation.
Spring greenhouse garlic seedlings often with fruit and vegetable rows across the border or row intercropping. Early spring you can also cover the overwintering garlic seedlings with film or a small arch to protect, to promote early greening and growth of garlic seedlings, in order to harvest early for the spring off-season market needs.
If you want to get some green garlic seedlings to taste at home, you can produce them by using an indoor fire bed, heater, etc., and placing soaked garlic cloves in a container. To eat garlic yellow, it is also very simple, get a few black handy bags to support up buttoned and tied tightly at the bottom impervious to light can be. Pay attention to moisture management, this method can be harvested 2 cuts.
In short, green garlic seedlings is in the winter or early spring of the cold season listed on the special vegetables, and because the garlic seedlings can be protected from production, the product is easy to wilt, and afraid of freezing, so it is necessary to go through the packaging to be able to be transported from the source to the market, the garlic seedlings of the root outward, the leaves towards the inside of the set full of squeezed tightly, and then wrapped tightly in a thin film, can be transported out of the country.