After winter, the plant is weakened, so it is important to help the garlic recover in time, grow and form a powerful root system. There are five basic steps that need to be taken.
1. Remove the cover and remove the bed. If the bed is mulched with leaves, then you need to carefully remove the excess so that the soil warms up faster. At the same time remove dry leaves and rotten plants.
“This should be done when stable above-zero temperatures have already begun. Therefore, you need to monitor the weather. When the garlic is covered and suddenly opened and a hard frost hits, plant growth will slow down,” Zavalny explained.
2. Loosen the soil. This is necessary to provide air access to the root system. If it is not there, the garlic begins to suffer from gray rot. And loosening the row spacing 3–5 cm deep will prevent moisture stagnation.
3. Carry out the first feeding. In spring, garlic requires nitrogen to grow green mass.
You can use the following fertilizer: urea solution (1 tbsp per 10 liters of water), mullein infusion (1:10) or ammonium nitrate. Fertilizing is carried out on moist soil.
4. Moisten the bed. If the spring is dry, the garden bed needs to be watered moderately. But without waterlogging, because stagnation of water provokes rot.
5. Inspect the garlic. You should check whether the shoots are frozen. Weak specimens can be fed additionally or added a little humus.
