How to grow garlic sprouts

Garlic is a commonly used ingredient, but if you store too much and use it in time, the garlic will sprout, so how to grow garlic sprouts?

1. Basic introduction of garlic

Garlic is the underground bulb of Liliaceae and Allium, which has a strong pungent smell of garlic. Garlic, garlic leaves (green garlic or garlic seedlings) and flower bolts (garlic bolts) can be used as vegetables and seasonings.

The length of the growth cycle of garlic varies greatly with different sowing dates. The growth period of garlic sown in spring is relatively short, generally 90 ~ 110 days, and the growth period of garlic sown in autumn is 220 ~ 280 days because it has to undergo a certain number of days of vernalization at low temperature. Garlic generally uses bulbs as propagation materials, and its growth process can be divided into six stages, namely, germination stage, seedling stage, scale bud and flower bud differentiation stage, flower stem extension stage, bulb expansion stage and dormancy stage.

How to grow garlic sprouts?

The germinated garlic can be broken into cloves and buried in the soil (not too deep) to ensure sufficient water and light; or the germinated garlic can be cultured in a container filled with water, and the garlic can also grow by changing water on time.

Garlic likes cold, but it is also resistant to low temperatures. Higher sunshine and high temperature are required to promote flower bud and scale bud differentiation.

Garlic has shallow roots, many root hairs, and the ability of root system to absorb water and fertilizer is weak, so it is not resistant to drought. Garlic has different requirements for soil moisture in different growth stages. Higher soil moisture is required in the germination stage to promote root sprouting; not too much water in the seedling stage to prevent the seedlings from growing excessively and promote the longitudinal growth of the root system; higher soil moisture is required in the period of de-mothering, scale bud and flower bud differentiation; in the bulb expansion stage, the soil moisture should be reduced to prevent the bulb bark from rotting and blackening.

What are the nutritional values of garlic?

1. Garlic bulbs are rich in protein, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, as well as fats and minerals.

2. Allicin has the functions of sterilization, bacteriostasis, anti-cancer, anti-aging and so on.

3. Allicin has the characteristics of strong bactericidal power and broad antibacterial spectrum, so allicin is also known as "botanical natural broad-spectrum antibiotics".