How to grow garlic on balcony

Garlic is a commonly used spice seasoning, and garlic is also a seed, which can be used to cultivate garlic seedlings, so what is the planting method of balcony garlic?

I. growth habits of garlic

Garlic is the underground bulb of Liliaceae and Allium. Garlic bulb is rich in protein, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, as well as fat and minerals. Long-term consumption can play a role in disease prevention and health care.

Garlic scale buds, also known as garlic cloves, botanically shorten the lateral buds of stem plates, and are the vegetative storage and reproductive organs of garlic. A scale bud is made up of two layers of scales and a bud.

According to the number of wheels of garlic cloves arranged on the stem disk, they can be divided into two types: one is staggered on the stem disk with a round of garlic cloves, which is generally 4 to 15 cloves, and most of them are large cloves, such as purple garlic; the other is the garlic cloves arranged in two or more rounds on the stem disk, generally 20 cloves, mostly small cloves, such as Gouya garlic.

Second, the planting method of balcony garlic.

You can choose two ways of hydroponics and soil culture:

Hydroponic garlic is relatively simple, as long as you prepare some healthy and unmoldy garlic, then soak the garlic in a container filled with water and culture it in a place with plenty of light.

If you cultivate garlic in soil, you need to choose fertile and loose soil to grow. Break the garlic into pieces and insert it into the soil about 2cm deep, then water it, and the garlic can grow normally.

III. Storage methods of garlic

Garlic is easy to sprout if you don't eat it for a long time. To avoid garlic sprouting, you need to store it well:

1, garlic can be put in the sun to dry part of the moisture, generally drying 2-3 days, cut off the fibrous root with a knife, can be transferred to a cool place to dry, during this period should pay attention to ventilation to prevent internal heat, mildew.

2. after the garlic is dried, after selection, the garlic that is mechanically injured, rotten or wrinkled is removed and braided. Put it in a temporary air shed, cold room or ventilated storage between summer and autumn to avoid dampness and cold in winter.

3. The cellar can also be dug in the land with high terrain, dry, thick soil and low groundwater level. Install ventilation ducts in the cellar and check regularly during cellar storage to remove rotten or spoiled garlic at any time.