The elderly NY garlic farmer I bought my first seed stock from told me to give it a good top dressing with 10-10-10 fertilizer in April (or whenever I pull the winter mulch cover off). Then he said I could apply it again in May, but that's it.
I did this the first several years and had excellent harvests. Then for some reason I stopped this practice and my harvests have been a bit pitiful using just a general liquid fertilizer.
This year I'm getting myself some fresh 10-10-10 fertilizer and going back to my original practice to see what happens.
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