How to manage garlic chives after the Start of Autumn? Get these points right
How to manage garlic chives well after the Start of Autumn? Please provide guidance on management methods. When growing garlic chives, management after the Start of Autumn can follow the seasons as below: At the "Start of Autumn," apply fertilizer and water together. Garlic chives like a cool climate. After the Start of Autumn, temperatures gradually drop and the difference between day and night temperatures is large. Strengthening management at this time helps garlic chives grow rapidly and accumulate nutrients. First, along...
How to manage garlic chives well after the Start of Autumn? Please provide guidance on management methodsWhen growing garlic chives, management after the Start of Autumn can follow the seasons as below:
At the "Start of Autumn," apply fertilizer and water together. Garlic chives like a cool climate. After the Start of Autumn, temperatures gradually drop and the difference between day and night temperatures is large. Strengthening management at this time helps garlic chives grow rapidly and accumulate nutrients. First open furrows along the ridges, and apply 50 kg of cake fertilizer, 750 kg of high-quality farmyard manure, and 20 kg of NPK compound fertilizer per 667 sq m. After fertilizing, cover with soil and water twice.
At the "Cold Dew," stop watering and control growth. After the Cold Dew, the weather gradually turns colder and garlic chives grow slowly. At this time, stop watering and topdressing fertilizer so that the nutrients of the garlic chives return early to the rhizomes and accumulate nutrients.
At the "Frost's Descent," set up wind barriers. One barrier manages two beds. After Frost's Descent, set up a wind barrier tilted northward at 1.3-1.5 m along the front edge of the south side of the bed, to lower the bed temperature, force the garlic chives into early dormancy, and reduce nutrient consumption; after covering at the Start of Winter, change the wind barrier to a 15-degree southward tilt, making the south bed a warm bed.
At the "Start of Winter," carry out covering management. Before covering, clear all dead leaves and debris in the bed, cut off the withered garlic chives, and apply 20 kg of urea per 667 sq m together with watering. After the water seeps down, build a small arched shed, cover it with film and straw curtains, uncover the straw curtains at 9 a.m. every day and cover them at 2 p.m., exposing them to sunlight for about 5 hours for darkening treatment. After 3-5 days, once the garlic chives begin to sprout, uncover the film, and spray with 25% carbendazim wettable powder or 40% triadimefon mixed with water to prevent garlic chive gray mold. After applying the pesticide, cover with soil in 2-3 rounds, with a total soil covering thickness of 5-10 cm. After the garlic chives emerge, earth up the roots. In late November, when the garlic chives have grown to 35 cm, cut the first time, and after harvesting, water and fertilize.
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