How to plant young garlic

The best thing about young garlic or young garlic is that, since what we are going to harvest are actually young shoots, it takes much less time to have the crop ready to be harvested. For this reason, while the traditional garlic harvest takes more than 6 months, that of young garlic will take less than two months, around 45 days.

Thanks to this, the planting margin is also much greater. As what we must avoid in the cultivation of garlic are the warmest months, the harvest of young garlic can be done from the end of summer until practically the end of winter. In fact, given its rapid cultivation and harvesting process, the ideal is plant the young garlic in a staggered manner from the beginning of autumnso that we can enjoy our harvest of fresh garlic sprouts until spring.

Plant garlic to harvest garlic sprouts It is a fairly similar process to growing regular garlic, although there are a few differences.

1. the first thing will be prepare the ground. Young garlic grows feeding basically on the nutrients contained in the garlic bulb’s own cloves, so it will not be necessary to fertilize the soil a lot. In fact, preparing a small layer of compost or earthworm humus at the base where we are going to bury them will be enough. We recommend this other article on How to make earthworm humus so that you learn how to prepare your own organic compost of this type.
2. Once you have the ground ready, bury the garlic or bulbs of this plant about 5 or 6 centimeters deep, more than is required for the common cultivation of garlic, since here we are interested in having a longer stem, since it is what we will later consume. Note that although it is possible to plant the garlic with its cloves separately, most experts recommend sow the whole heads of garlic, without any preparation other than lightly peeling the outer layers to facilitate the germination of the garlic cloves, which is also not necessary. Just be sure to plant the heads of garlic with their small roots down and the sharp part up, or they will have a lot of trouble germinating.
3. After burying them, cover the area again with soil and water a little to moisten, without flooding.
4. When finished, if you have fireplace ashes, you can add a thin layer to the soil to add some potassium to the soil, or some banana tea instead, since garlic is very grateful for this nutrient.

For plant the garlic in a potit will be enough to follow these instructions:

1. Get a container or pot that has approximately a few 10cm deep. Otherwise, the process is quite similar to garden cultivation.
2. When preparing the substrate, keep in mind that garlic does not require a large amount of nitrogen, so it will not be necessary to add fertilizer to the usual mixture. Instead, the wood ash or plantain tea options will give better results, as discussed earlier, because potassium that contain.
3. Bury the heads of garlic whole if the pot has enough space or, if it is narrow or very long, plant them by teeth, a few centimeters apart from each other.
4. Water after sowing, and in a few 45 days your garlic sprouts will be ready to be harvested. Remember that when the tips of the shoots turn yellow, it will be harvest time.

Apart from these steps and tips, we advise you to know the information that we bring you in this other post about Planting garlic: how and when to do it.

Garlic requires very little care. Here we leave you a practical guide with the basic care of young garlic sprouts:

• It is a crop that needs little water and few nutrients, as well as being very fleeting.
• Use soils without excess nitrogen fertilizer.
• Water your young garlic only when the soil is dry, as they do not require constant moisture. Of course, about 20 days before the harvest, it is important to stop watering them.
• It is also advisable to keep the garlic area clean of any weeds, as this could deprive these plants of the water and nutrients they need.

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