What to Do When Garlic Chives Grow Thinner and Thinner? These Methods Help You Solve It

Garlic chives are a common vegetable. Although their price is not high, the market demand is enormous, especially in the catering industry, where they are made into barbecue dishes, cold dishes, dumpling filling, and more, and are deeply loved by the public. But in autumn, many farmers find when planting garlic chives that their own garlic chive leaves are growing thinner and thinner. What causes this? How should it be solved? Let's take a look together.

1. Harvesting too frequently

Garlic chives can be harvested multiple times after one planting, and many farmers want to harvest a few more rounds. In fact, this instead causes the quality of the garlic chives to get worse and worse. No matter how well the garlic chives are tended, they still need a certain amount of time to resume growth. If harvested too frequently, they will find it hard to recover, causing the leaves to grow thinner and thinner and the quality to gradually decline.

Solution: Therefore, during production, do not keep harvesting continuously. After harvesting, water and earth up the soil in time to prompt the garlic chives to recover as quickly as possible and improve quality.

2. Planting too densely

Planting garlic chives too densely can also affect their growth. When planting garlic chives, it is generally 3-4 plants per clump, and there should be a certain distance between clumps. At the beginning, the planting may grow very well, but as the garlic chives grow, they will show root division, which leads to overly dense growth, and they will also gradually grow thinner and thinner.

Solution: For this situation, thinning out seedlings can be adopted; simply thin the seedlings every few days. After all, if the seedlings grow too densely, their growth will be inhibited, so they grow thinner and thinner. Thinning the seedlings can ensure that the remaining garlic chives can spread their roots and better absorb nutrients, so that good-looking garlic chives can grow.

3. Insufficient fertility

The growth of any crop cannot be separated from fertilizer, especially after garlic chives are harvested, when growth requires a large amount of nutrients. With insufficient fertility, garlic chives cannot grow and develop normally, so they will grow thinner and thinner.

Solution: Applying fertilizer in time after harvesting is very important. In spring, while the garlic chives have not yet grown very large, loosen the soil and break it up fine, then apply 2000 kg of decomposed organic fertilizer per mu. One point to note here is to avoid residual insect eggs in the organic fertilizer causing disease in the garlic chives later.

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