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Old 31-03-2003, 11:44 PM
Gary Woods
 
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Default Garlic planting

"Sue & Bob Hobden" wrote:

Isn't it Sodium that members of the onion family like?


Sulfur. But that's just for the flavor.
Garlic is the worst of both worlds: A heavy feeder and a lousy competitor.
Lots of N while it's growing foliage, P while forming bulbs. And clean
weeding and/or mulch. Took me a while to figure out the weeding bit; it
doesn't come natural to me...


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