The KaiKai Book

Gardening Ideas

EASY GROWING PLANT HACKS Bring out your inner gardener with these useful hacks! We showed how to grow your own plants and create an amazing garden. TIMESTAMPS: 00:30 How to grow tomatoes, 02:20 Easy way to grow roses, 04:20 Grow your own plants, 06:22 Easy gardening hacks, 07:49 Grow pineapple, 09:47 How to grow peaches, 10:10 Unexpected way to use eggshell, 11:42 Helpful life hacks for a gardener, 13:32 How to grow guava

In Australia, April is the time to plant your alliums. If you're going to grow garlic, leeks, onions or spring onions this year then Tino's tips should give you the best crops possible. There's a myth that garlic should be planted on the shortest day of the year and harvested on the longest. In the UK and Europe that might hold some truth but in Australia it is just a myth – you need to get your garlic in earlier. April is the prime time to plant! FEATURED PLANTS: 02:11 GARLIC 'SPANISH ROJA' Allium sativum cv. 02:21 GARLIC 'DUNGANSKI' Allium sativum cv. 02:33 ELEPHANT GARLIC Allium ampeloprasum. 03:20 POTATO ONION Allium cepa. 03:53 LEEK 'DURABEL' Allium ampeloprasum cv. 04:28 SPRING ONION 'RED BEARD' Allium cepa cv. Tino's Top Garlic Tip - Garlic needs a good chill to start shooting, so he plants the cloves into furrows so they're just covered - that way they get a touch of frost. Backfill around the shoots as they grow. HOW TO ... PLANT ALLIUMS: Pick a sunny spot, Add a barrow load of homemade compost for every 2 square metres, Add a bit of aged manure, about a bucket per square metre, but absolutely never use the fresh stuff; it will lower their resistance to pests, 00:48 Cultivate the soil to a fine tilth to clear the way for the bulbs, Sweeten the soil with a tight fistful of dolomite per square metre. - plant garlic and elephant garlic bulbs 15cm apart, - plant potato onions 20cm apart, - plant seedlings 10cm apart, Water in seedlings, but not bulbs as they can rot, Timing is CRITICAL - plant in April! In Australia we've got over 100 different cultivars of garlic that work in different climates and different places. Worldwide, there are probably over 1000 different cultivars of garlic so there are plenty to try!

Tino Carnevale visits garlic grower Letetia Ware at her organic farm. Letetia supplies garlic bulbs to home gardeners who want to experience the diverse flavours of garlic in many of its forms. Garlic is native to Uzbekistan and Kurdistan in Central Asia, and was traded to both Europe and Asia, where it has become part of their culinary staples, selected on taste. As a result, about 1000 cultivars of garlic now exist worldwide; in Australia we have about 100 or so. Garlic is very prone to rotting off in wet winters, so Letetia grows all hers in raised beds. She prepares her beds first with a green manure crop that helps incorporate organic matter. The pH should be between 6 and 7. Her top tips for garlic success are: - Plant in rich, organic soil, - Soil needs to have a loose structure that is able to drain freely, - Minimise wind, - Keep well weeded and mulched. Planting garlic instructions: 1. Separate bulbs and make sure each clove is firm, 2. Separate cloves into small, medium and large – you can eat the small ones as they won’t be planted, 3. Soak the cloves overnight in diluted seaweed solution, 4. Plant the same-sized bulbs in rows together, 5. Rows should be 15cm apart and each clove 10cm apart, 6. Plant them point up (base down) 2cm (first knuckle) into the soil, 7. Mulch 2-3cm thick all over with a fluffy mulch (like sugar cane) to keep the moisture in and suppress weeds. Harvest tips: - Softneck garlic leans over as it ripens into a bulb, - The leaves will gradually yellow and reduce – when they have gone from 12 green leaves to 6 then it’s ready to harvest. Plant for a year-round supply using a combination of greenhouse (sub-tropical) varieties, which you can grow two crops a year from in glasshouses, plus some cooler-climate types.

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