What soil is suitable for garlic chives? Treating alkaline soil this way

Garlic chives not only have excellent edible value, but also high medicinal value. Many traditional medicines indicate that garlic chives can nourish the liver and spleen and stomach, and have certain effects on lowering blood lipids and blood pressure. So what soil is suitable for growing garlic chives?

Garlic chives have strong adaptability to soil, and can be cultivated in clay soil, loam soil or sandy loam soil. However, because the root system is relatively small and its absorption capacity is weak, it is best to choose fertile loam with deep soil layers, rich organic matter, and strong water and fertilizer retention capacity. Garlic chives have a certain adaptability to saline-alkaline soil. According to experiments, garlic chives can grow normally in soil with a salt content of 0.2%, but during the seedling stage they can only adapt to a salt content of 0.15%, and mature plants can grow normally in soil with a salt content of 0.2 5%. When cultivating garlic chives in saline-alkaline land, first choose a plot with low salt content for raising seedlings, and after the plants have grown, move them to the main field.

Therefore, when planting garlic chives, organic fertilizer should be applied. On one hand, it supplements nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and trace elements; on the other hand, it can improve the soil and promote root growth.

In daily life, most soils are alkaline, so effective methods can be used to change alkaline soil for growing garlic chives.

Methods to solve the problem of growing garlic chives in alkaline soil

Try not to use alkaline chemical fertilizers, and use more organic fertilizers and acidic chemical fertilizers. Gypsum can also be used to improve the soil. Agricultural gypsum is both a fertilizer and a very good soil conditioner.

The main component of gypsum is calcium sulfate, which contains a lot of calcium and sulfur. It is a very good fertilizer and also has a very good effect on improving alkaline soil.

Why can gypsum improve alkaline soil?

Sodium carbonate in the soil can react with calcium sulfate, the main component of gypsum, to form sodium sulfate, which is easily soluble in water. Sodium sulfate can be washed away with water through irrigation, thereby eliminating the alkalinity in the soil layer and achieving the purpose of improving alkaline soil.