Comment on Our garlic harvest
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I never fed the garlic specifically, but just prepared the whole garden with finished compost. We planted grocery store garlic cloves and seed garlic from an existing local patch. They seem to really like coffee grounds.
anti_antidote@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Definitely! Garlic prefers acidic soil (around 6.5 pH) so adding coffee grounds will definitely help, especially if the soil in your area is basic
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I have a roughly neutral pH here, I just add coffee grounds to loosen things up and force my little invertebrate minions to stay near the surface and chew up the clay pasture soil for me. We’ve seen a huge increase in worm castings from as deep as 30 inches below the surface this year. Very satisfying. They don’t care about drought, they farm while I sleep in!
anti_antidote@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nice! I’m based near Michigan so our soil is fairly loamy anyway, but we grow out garlic in raised beds so that doesn’t really matter for us. Sure is a pain to set up though