How to grow garlic at home? What is the method and time?

Garlic is one of the necessary auxiliary materials for cooking, and often eat garlic has bactericidal and antibacterial effects, so many flower lovers wonder how to grow garlic at home? How? What time would be appropriate?

1. The efficacy and contraindications of garlic

Garlic can be eaten as food, but also can be used as medicine, the picture below is garlic nutrition table, you can have a look.

1. Garlic has a strong bactericidal effect: sulfur compounds in garlic have strong antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, and have inhibitory and killing effects on a variety of cocci, bacilli, fungi and viruses. It is the strongest antibacterial effect in natural plants currently found.

2. Prevention and treatment of tumors and cancer. Elements such as germanium and selenium in garlic inhibit the growth of tumor cells and cancer cells. Studies have shown that people with the lowest incidence of cancer are those with the highest selenium content in their blood. Garlic tops the list of plants with the world's greatest cancer potential, according to the U.S. National Cancer Organization.

3. Detoxification and intestinal cleansing, prevention of gastrointestinal diseases.

4. Lowering blood sugar can prevent diabetes. Garlic can promote the secretion of insulin, increase the absorption of glucose by tissue cells, improve human glucose tolerance, rapidly reduce blood sugar levels in the body, and kill various bacteria induced by infection, thus effectively preventing and treating diabetes.

5. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Garlic can also prevent fat deposition in cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, induce fat metabolism in tissues, significantly increase fibrinolytic activity, reduce cholesterol, inhibit platelet aggregation, reduce plasma concentration, increase arteriole dilation, relax blood vessels, regulate blood pressure, increase vascular permeability, thereby inhibiting thrombosis and preventing arteriosclerosis.

6. Prevention of colds: garlic contains a kind of pepper called "propylene sulfide", which has a good killing effect on pathogenic bacteria and parasites, can prevent colds, reduce fever, cough, sore throat and nasal congestion and other cold symptoms.

7. Anti-fatigue effect: can play a good role in eliminating fatigue and restoring physical strength.

8. Anti-aging effect: Some ingredients in garlic have antioxidant and anti-aging properties similar to vitamin E and vitamin C.

9. Protection of liver function: selenium, a trace element in garlic, protects the liver by participating in the aerobic generation of blood.

10. Energetic, impotence treatment: studies have shown that garlic does have the effect of treating impotence. Garlic helps blood circulation, which is important for erectile function. Garlic probably stimulates the production of nitric oxide synthase, an enzyme necessary for male erections.

11. Anti-allergy effect: eating garlic raw every day can reduce the degree of allergic reactions, especially those caused by temperature changes. You can actually start eating raw garlic weeks before allergy season.

12. Prevention of female fungal vaginitis: fungal vaginitis is caused by mold infection, garlic contains a lot of allicin, garlic pull element and other substances, is a good bactericidal substance, has a great bactericidal effect, can inhibit Candida albicans in the vagina excessive growth and reproduction, so women eat garlic food daily, can effectively prevent the occurrence of fungal vaginitis.

13. Improve sugar metabolism: Studies have confirmed that raw garlic can improve the glucose tolerance of normal people, while also promoting insulin secretion and increasing the utilization of glucose by tissue cells to reduce blood sugar levels.

14. Garlic is a spicy food, so stomach is not good, such as gastrointestinal inflammation, stomach problems, diarrhea people eat carefully, so as not to aggravate the disease.

15. Long acne, body odor, halitosis people do not eat. There is also insufficient qi and blood, hot people do not eat.

2. Garlic cultivation

In fact, it is very convenient and simple to grow garlic at home. It is OK to have soil and containers for garlic growth. Let's take a look at it together.

1. When is the right time to plant?

Our country has a vast territory, so the planting time is different in different areas, but if it is planted in one's own home, it can be planted basically all year round. And outdoor large-scale planting words: garlic sowing the best time is to make the plant grow to 5~6 leaves before winter, at this time the plant cold resistance is the strongest, in the cold winter will not be frozen to death, and for the plant to pass the vernalization smoothly laid a good foundation. Sowing in the south of the Yangtze River and in the river basin is generally in the middle and late September.

(1) In southern areas such as Anhui, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Guangdong, autumn sowing is carried out from September to October, and harvest can be basically carried out around May of the following year.

(2) In northern areas such as Harbin, Urumqi, Taiyuan, Beijing, Jinan, etc., spring sowing can be harvested from February to March of the next year from June to July of the next year, and some hills can be harvested in September and June of the next year.

2. What are the ways to grow garlic at home?

1. First of all, the pot or do not want the bucket (other containers can also be) filled with soil, do not need to fill too full, because the latter also planted garlic, flow out about the height of garlic cloves +1 cm can be.

2. At this time, open the garlic bud point upward, arranged not too thin, not too dense.

3. Cover garlic with soil about 1 cm thick. You can use the soil in the vegetable garden, you can also use the soil beside the river bank, you can also buy nutritious soil online, of course, fertile soil can make garlic grow better.

4. After planting, you have to water it well, and then put the planted garlic pot in the shade to wait for germination. Pay attention to the growth period of stems and leaves. Generally, the surface of the pot soil will be slightly dried before watering, so as to avoid waterlogging and lead to decay. If garlic sprouts and garlic heads are to be harvested, watering should be increased appropriately from the beginning of bolting to keep the soil moist, and watering should be controlled before harvest.

e. After garlic sprouts, it can be maintained in a place with good light. Daily management is also very simple. After watering, it is generally necessary to apply decomposed organic fertilizer once every time the leaves are harvested. When garlic leaves are old and unfit to eat, they can be pulled out. To harvest garlic sprouts and garlic heads, normal management should be continued, and decomposed organic fertilizer should be applied once every 1~2 weeks, and phosphorus and potassium fertilizer can be added.

After reading these are not some eager to try it, like to eat garlic quickly move it!