Spring feeding of garlic with urea
No one will be surprised by the desire of a gardener to get a good harvest from his site. This is easily accomplished if you organize a competent approach to the nuances of growing garden crops. One of these aspects is timely fertilization. Garlic also loves feeding, especially during the period of active growth. There is an opinion that the most important point in the struggle for a high-quality, rich harvest is not to miss that very necessary moment of spring feeding. The first feeding of garlic with urea, as practice shows, brings good results. Otherwise, you can only dream about the harvest.
Spring feeding of garlic with urea
Fertilizer description
Gardeners use urea as the most affordable fertilizer. Urea or urea is a nitrogen-containing fertilizer that is used to stimulate the vegetative part of the plant. The nitrogen concentration in urea is almost 50%. Therefore, it is very important not to miss the timing of the introduction of this fertilizer. Otherwise, we will get a beautiful bouquet of arrows and garlic greens, and the bulbs will not develop, and the volume of the harvest will be very meager.
Urea is equally effective both as the main fertilizer during planting and during subsequent fertilizing, regardless of the type of soil on which the garlic grows. Urea nitrogen is well fixed by soils, less susceptible to leaching by precipitation.
The benefits of urea for garlic
Most gardeners advise using nitrogenous fertilizers for the first feeding of garlic beds in the spring. This is due to the fact that after the first shoots of a winter crop variety appear, you can see that its leaves begin to turn yellow. This happens for the following reasons:
- After the appearance of the first shoots, the plant is repeatedly subjected to frost in the spring.
- The bacteria that are in the soil become vital only after the soil has completely warmed up. Until that moment, all plants and garlic beds, including, suffer from a lack of nitrogen.
At the same time, nitrogen starvation helps plants survive frost better. But still, if you want to harvest a good harvest from the garlic beds, you will have to help the plant a little.
Benefits
Among the advantages of using urea as the first spring feeding of a vegetable crop, the following can be distinguished:
- Garden crops quickly assimilate the urea solution;
- Urea does not acidify the soil;
- Urea dissolves slowly in soils;
- When foliar feeding plants, no burns occur on the leaves;
- The plant sprayed with a solution of urea will bloom later, which will reduce the possible shedding of flowers due to spring frosts;
- Urea solution is used in the fight against garden and pathogenic bacteria;
- The use of urea as a top dressing increases the yield of cultivated plants.
Getting into the soil, nitrogen from urea feeds the garden culture in equal doses.This leads to a stable and long-lasting effect from the application of the fertilizer.
How to prepare urea solution
Preparing the solution
In order to feed the garlic with urea, it is necessary to prepare its solution. How many gardeners, so many recipes for such a solution. How concentrated the solution should be depends on what type of feeding you will be doing. Agronomists recommend adhering to the following norm:
- For application before planting, 5-12 grams of fertilizer is enough for 1 square meter of the plot area;
- For foliar feeding during the period of active growth, you need 50-60 g of fertilizer per 10 liters of water.
- For preventive spraying of garlic, you need 25-30 grams of fertilizer per 10 liters of water.
Urea is very soluble in water; for more efficient use of fertilizer, it is recommended to take warm water. This will have a good effect on the plant and the rate of dissolution of urea. Simple superphosphates, chalk, dolomites, lime cannot be used as additives to the urea solution.
Recommendations
When preparing a solution of urea, one should strictly adhere to the recommended norms, since an excess of nitrogen will not bring good results, but, on the contrary, can lead to oppression of garlic beds.
When working with urea, do not forget to adhere to some nuances:
- Use special clothing, footwear that does not get wet, and wear a hat and respirator.
- For feeding, take only a freshly prepared solution. The solution that has stood for some time loses its nutritional quality.
How to feed garlic with urea
Approximately one week after the snow has completely melted from the beds, it is necessary to begin spring processing of a winter variety of vegetable crops.
At least two weeks should pass between the first and second feeding. The last, third, feeding is carried out two weeks after the second. It is necessary to feed the spring variety, as well as the winter one, with adjustment for the first feeding, which is carried out after the appearance of the first shoots.
But you need to know exactly the timing and methodology of how to feed garlic with urea, or you can get a completely different result that is expected. The need to comply with the timing of feeding this crop is dictated by the fact that too early fertilization will go to the violent growth of greenery and the formation of garlic arrows, and too late fertilization of the crop will not lead to any results at all, except for yellowed leaves.
Feeding methods
There are two ways to feed the crop in spring with a clear yellowing of the leaves:
- Application of dry fertilizer at the root.
- Treatment with urea solution.
Dry dressing
When using dry urea, it is necessary to make a groove 2 centimeters deep, fill it with fertilizer, cover it with earth and water the beds until the introduced preparations are completely dissolved, since the nutrients are absorbed in dissolved form.
Wet top dressing
Fertilize the garden culture with a solution of urea, watering each square meter of garlic beds. When processing the plant in this way, you need to try to water the root zone. One portion of the solution prepared from 10 liters of water is enough to irrigate 5-6 square meters of the plot.
It is advisable to combine top dressing with watering garlic beds. This is due to the fact that the plant does not like abundant and frequent watering. In a rainy summer, it is generally not recommended to water this crop. In dry weather, the plant should be watered once every five days.
Urea prophylaxis
Since gardeners have noticed a good understanding of urea and garlic, foliar feeding based on it can be used as an additional fertilizer. The gardener himself determines the feasibility of its use, paying attention to the behavior of the plant.
If the garden culture turns yellow or begins to fade for no apparent reason, it is worth spraying the beds with the plant with a less concentrated urea solution. Spraying of the crop should be carried out only in cloudy weather or in the evening, when the sun has already left the active phase and will not burn the greens. It must also be remembered that foliar feeding should not be done very often. It is recommended to resort to this type of feeding no more than twice during the entire period of active plant growth.
It is also useful to fertilize garlic beds with urea in the fight against various garden pests.
Caring for a garden crop with a characteristic smell does not require huge cash costs, and it also does not take away your free time and energy. As a result of the use of simple manipulations at the end of the summer season, you will receive a pleasant surprise. With a competently carried out top dressing, the harvested crop from garlic beds can surprise even an experienced gardener.