What you shouldn't water onions and garlic with: an example of unsuccessful fertilization
In the dacha environment, nutritional compositions for cultivated plants are especially popular; they can be prepared from things that would normally be thrown away.
These can be food waste, plant remains, and even weeds. However, not all crops benefit from them.
The well-known pair – onions and garlic – which are distinguished by their high vitality and ability to disinfect the soil as part of crop rotation, do not like such solutions.
A striking example is nettle decoction.
The infusion or decoction contains nutrients, as well as microelements such as silicon, potassium, phosphorus, iron and others.
This is a popular product for root and foliar feeding, which stimulates growth and increases the immunity of plantings.
But for the harvest of onions and garlic, the additive is more harmful than beneficial.
If you water a bed of onions and garlic with this infusion or decoction, you will have a sea of tops.
But the underground part of the vegetables will not develop very well, which means the harvest will be poor.
By the way, you shouldn't use nettle fertilizer in a bed with legumes. The result will be about the same - lots of greenery and poor pod formation.
