How to grow garlic on the balcony

Now many people like to grow some flowers and vegetables on the balcony, which can not only afforest the environment, but also pick as soon as you eat. there are common kinds of garlic, cabbages, tomatoes and so on. How does the balcony grow garlic?

1. Planting time

Garlic is usually sown and propagated with garlic seedlings, which can be sown all the year round, but it is best to sow garlic in May in spring, so that the garlic seedlings can germinate quickly in the pot soil, and each time in the process of sowing, do not carry out in cloudy and rainy days, it is easy to make the garlic seedlings rot.

2. Selection of basin soil

Prepare a wide-mouth flowerpot, either with a ceramic pot or an earthen pot. Soil with normal garden soil can, it is best to add appropriate amount of fertilizer, more conducive to growth. Put it in a flowerpot when you are ready. Of course, pastoral soil, plant ash and fine sand can also be mixed according to 5:1:1 as the substrate, in which an appropriate amount of mature organic fertilizer is added to increase the fertility of the mixed soil.

3. Seed selection

Choose garlic with no damage, no disease, no diseases and insect pests, and then break it open, be careful not to hurt the epidermis, pot maintenance should be planted with the epidermis.

4. Planting

Wet the soil with water before planting, then plant the flat part of the garlic cloves into the soil and bury it for 1/2, then keep the soil moist and keep the sun from shining on the garlic potted plant in the shade, so that the garlic can take root and sprout in the potted soil.

Generally speaking, it is good to grow garlic on the balcony, as long as you choose the pot soil, deal with the garlic cloves, and plant them in the soil.