Garlic

Maximise your yield & cut your operating costs with Sky Terra

Garlic is a crop that needs consistency from planting right through to bulb fill and that’s where Sky Terra can help.

We understand how sensitive garlic can be to nutrition, moisture, and early disease pressure, and how important it is to stay ahead before problems show up in bulb size.

Our drones deliver accurate foliar feeds, fungicides, and insect control without running machinery through rows or disturbing beds.

Because we’re not on the ground, we can get applications on even after rain or when the soil is too soft for tractors or booms.

We also fly multispectral monitoring to pick up early signs of stress waterlogging, nutrient deficiencies, fungal pressure, or patchy growth so you can correct issues before they cost yield or bulb uniformity.

It’s a clean, low-impact way to keep garlic healthy, protect bulb development, and stay on top of timing in a crop where small delays make big differences at harvest.

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Ready to book your garlic spraying? We can get across the crop even when the ground’s too soft for machinery, helping you stay ahead of disease, nutrition demands, and early stress before it affects bulb size.

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Field Prep to Harvest

Garlic Growth Stages & Spray Passes (Simple Guide)

(Approx. 3–6 spray applications per season depending on disease, pests, and nutrition needs)

Field Preparation
– Beds formed, soil worked, moisture balanced, weeds controlled.
– Knockdown herbicides or soil treatments applied here (Pass 1).
Planting (Clove Setting)
– Cloves planted into formed beds at correct depth and spacing.
– In-furrow nutrition or insect treatments sometimes used.
Emergence & Early Growth
– Shoots break through soil; roots establish quickly.
– Early fungicide or insect spray if pressure is present (Pass 2 – optional).
– Foliar nutrition to support early vigour.
Vegetative Growth (Leaf Development)
– Rapid leaf growth; plant builds energy reserves.
– Protectant fungicide to prevent early leaf disease (Pass 3).
– Foliar nutrition passes as required.
Bulb Initiation
– Plant shifts from leaf growth to bulb formation.
– Important window for nutrition and disease control (Pass 4).
– Insect work if thrips or pests appear.
Bulb Bulking
– Bulbs increase in size; high demand for water and nutrients.
– Regular fungicide program in humid/wet seasons (Pass 5–6 depending on pressure).
– Targeted foliar nutrition to support bulb size and uniformity.
Maturation
– Leaves yellow and dry down as bulbs complete development.
– Late fungicide only if disease pressure spikes (Pass 7 – optional).
– No nutrition passes at this stage.
Harvest
– Bulbs lifted once skins tighten and tops dry.
– No spray passes here.

Typical Total Spray Count:

3–6 applications per season
(up to 7 in high disease years)