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Post by freelove on Sept 24, 2019 12:48:58 GMT
Every year the garlic bed gets a load of composted manure, mulched with a deep layer of shredded leaves and some years I add rock phosphate and greensand. I was looking at kelp meal and wondered if it would be a better addition.
Has anyone here used kelp meal for garlic and what did you think of the results?
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Post by feather on Sept 24, 2019 13:55:39 GMT
I haven't used it. I looked it up and it is a good addition to soil, low in Nitrogen, so non burning. It is full of other nutrients that might fill a gap.
Garlic is a heavy nitrogen feeder, so the manure will feed it nitrogen. If you are looking for more nitrogen, you might consider milorganite, a slow release nitrogen, non burning.
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Post by feather on Sept 25, 2019 0:39:08 GMT
I was thinking about your question today for a while. When vidalia onion are grown, they grow in a low sulfur soil, they are not HOT. Vidalia are sweet. Garlic is much like onions.
The kelp meal, low on npk, fills a gap for more sulfur. So if, and only if, your soil is low in sulfur, you may get more mild garlic, but with the kelp meal, you may get more HOT garlic. But that's about all I could come up with.
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Post by Cabin Fever on Sept 25, 2019 1:25:43 GMT
We eat seaweed every time me make sushi. And, one of the shake on flavors we use contains seaweed.
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Post by freelove on Sept 25, 2019 13:15:29 GMT
CF I make a delicious seaweed chowder. DH also likes the sprinkles with seaweed and he makes a great (vegetarian) sushi, too. I used to live on an island and the seaweed that washed up on the beach made great mulch.
Feather, thanks for the advice. I was thinking of it for the potash. I have had good results with the greensand and rock phosphate so maybe I should just stick with the tried and true. My garlic is producing well, but I am always open to something new and perhaps better.
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