A Detailed Guide to the Planting Methods and Key Technical Points for Wild Garlic

Wild garlic should not be grown in continuous cropping; it is suitable for intercropping and relay intercropping with other crops. Before sowing, the land needs to be plowed and base fertilizer applied, then leveled and formed into beds, using raised beds or semi-raised beds, with furrows opened at a row spacing of about 24 cm. With a hole spacing of 15 cm, place 2-3 bulbs per hole, and water after sowing. Wild garlic will sprout 7-10 days after planting. After sprouting, apply a topdressing of nitrogen fertilizer or compound fertilizer every 15 days, and cultivate and weed during the mid-stage.

Introduction to Wild Garlic Planting Methods

1. Land preparation

Wild garlic should not be grown in continuous cropping; it is suitable for intercropping and relay intercropping with other crops. Before sowing, the land needs to be plowed and base fertilizer applied, then leveled and formed into beds, using raised beds or semi-raised beds, with furrows opened at a row spacing of about 24 cm.

2. Sowing

Select a good wild garlic variety, discard small bulbs and those with rotten roots, remove dry leaves, trim off some fibrous roots, and then sow. With a hole spacing of 15 cm, place 2-3 bulbs per hole, and water after sowing.

3. Topdressing and watering

Wild garlic will sprout 7-10 days after planting. After sprouting, apply a topdressing of nitrogen fertilizer or compound fertilizer every 15 days, and cultivate and weed during the mid-stage. Watering should be determined according to soil conditions, and attention should also be paid to draining water after rain.

4. Field management

After wild garlic reaches the 4-leaf stage, the leaf tips turn slightly yellow, which is a sign of underground bulb enlargement. At this time, water and fertilizer management should be strengthened, and while watering, apply 20 jin of urea per mu as topdressing.

5. Harvest

It can be harvested and marketed in mid to late May; otherwise, due to high summer temperatures, the plants will enter dormancy and show wilting and yellowing.