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For garlic to be high-yielding, getting these four stages right is key

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To make garlic high-quality, high-yielding and early to market, you must get the following four stages right: The sprouting stage: harvested garlic seed remains dormant for a certain period. Therefore, 10 days before planting, the selected garlic seed should be placed in a cool spot and covered with fine sand or loess. Before sowing, soak it in well water for 12 hours. This not only brings germination forward by 2-3 days, but also gives even, sturdy growth. The soil preparation stage: garlic likes moist sandy soil; other loess and clay soils can also be planted as long as they are broken up. The

To make garlic high-quality, high-yielding and early to market, you must get the following four stages right:

The sprouting stage: harvested garlic seed remains dormant for a certain period. Therefore, 10 days before planting, the selected garlic seed should be placed in a cool spot and covered with fine sand or loess. Before sowing, soak it in well water for 12 hours. This not only brings germination forward by 2-3 days, but also gives even, sturdy growth.

The soil preparation stage: garlic likes moist sandy soil; other loess and clay soils can also be planted as long as they are broken up. The beds and ridges are best oriented east-west, with beds about 10 m long and 1.2 m wide, furrows 8-9 cun wide, and 30 dan of farmyard manure applied per mu, then turned into the soil with an iron rake to below 3 cun.

The sowing stage: garlic seed is divided into white-skin and red-skin types. Red-skin types can be sown in early August; white-skin types can be sown in late August. So that the garlic leaves do not crowd and shade each other once grown, when sowing the cloves in the ground each one should be set in the same direction; a 1.2 m strip of bamboo can be used as a guide line for sowing the cloves, with the flat side of the garlic parallel to the bamboo strip and the round side facing one way, south or north, inserting one clove every 1.5-2 cun. Insert them slightly below the bed surface. The row spacing is 3 cun. The garlic cloves in adjacent rows are staggered in a triangle, then covered with thatch or rice straw to shade and retain water. Finally, scatter the fine soil from cleaning the furrows over the straw on the bed surface to keep the straw from being blown away by the wind, and water that same evening until it soaks through, so that germination and growth proceed smoothly.

The topdressing stage: when the garlic sprouts have grown 2-3.21 leaves, if growth is poor, apply 1% urea water in bands along each row; do not splash it about at random.

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