Planting Garlic at Home

A Few Healthful Facts When Planting Garlic!

Garlic is a popular spice and planting garlic in your backyard garden will give you fresh supplies every time you need some for your recipes. Of course, they don’t stay fresh for long. You need to harvest them, air dry and store them in your cabinets under room temperature. Garlic will hardly spoil if you store them in your kitchen properly dried and stored.

If you’re a commercial planter, you have to choose the variety that’s more salable. Some kinds of garlic have only four cloves in each bulb, while others have 12. Some varieties have a stronger smell than others and there are those which are easily peeled compared to some. The economy of garlic plays an important role when speed in food preparation is needed or if size is more important than quantity.

A good harvest is very important if you want to make the most out of your garden. Sandy loam soil is the ideal soil for planting garlic. Soft soil will give the bulb easier time to develop and may result in bigger cloves. This type of soil is usually used for root crops like peanuts and beets. Identifying this type of soil is easy. Get some solid soil and crush it in your grip. If it crumbles easily not leaving any sticky residues but only dirt which are easily swiped away, that’s the soil you’d want.

It’s always preferable to prepare the “seeds” the day before planting garlic. Be very careful when separating the cloves from one another. Even minor injuries will render them useless. They should be double checked and must be planted where there is an ample supply of light. Soak them in a pesticide solution to kill the resident microscopic pests living in the cloves and let them stay there for 1 to 2 minutes or depending on the instructions found in the packing of the pesticide. Some gardeners would soak the cloves in icy cold water for few minutes to awaken the sleeping tissues of the clove.

Plants will always thrive better when the soil is even and the grass uprooted. A good organic fertilizer will help the plants grow healthier and healthier for the consumers. Organic plants are more in demand and command higher prices. You can use horse manure or cow dung as supplements but a commercial preparation of organic fertilizers using worm excretes will even be a better one. It has balanced ingredients made from all organic components which have a ph just right for garlic. Inorganic fertilizers are very acidic and they tend to stay in the tissues of the plant and we end up ingesting them.

• How to Plant Garlic Successfully
  
  Apply fertilizer once a month to help them in their growth. These are the garlic which are sold in the supermarkets. It’s nice if you know how to plant garlic.