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Old 30-04-2011, 07:38 AM posted to aus.gardens
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Default How to make my garlic healthy

In article , Lionel
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I have garlic growing but it doesn't look like it is flourishing. Is
this normal or is there something more I can do? You can see pictures
he http://users.tpg.com.au/jennlion//Garden.html


After making sure that it has been watered, and fed, give it an extra
dose of bone meal.
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Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition)
(Storey's Down-To-Earth Guides) by Stu Campbell (Jan 3, 1998)
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...stripbooks&fie
ld-keywords=Let+it+Rot&x=0&y=0
(Available at a library near you.)

Phosphorus

Phosphorus stimulates growth, flowering, and root
development. Cell division is vital to plant growth, and it would
be impossible without the presence of phosphorus. Plants without

114 LET IT ROT!

phosphorus grow slowly (if at all), look droopy, and have weak
root systems. But phosphorus, unlike nitrogen, is immobile. It
tends to stay for a long time wherever it is applied. It does not
leach and is not given off as a gas.

The best sources of phosphorus are rock phosphate and
bone meal. (Bone meal also contains nitrogen.) Superphosphate
is rock phosphate that has been treated with sulfuric acid to
make it more soluble. Unfortunately, in the treatment process
many of the valuable minor elements of phosphate rock, such
as boron, zinc, nickel, and iodine, have been lost. Phosphate
rock is often added to the compost pile in a light sprinkling
every several layers.
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Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French.*
Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek.
Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
-** Alice May Brock
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- Billy

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