What you'll get will be garlic sprouts or greens, which are the green tops of a bulb much like what happens when a bulb sprouts on your kitchen counter. These greens are not the same as green garlic, which is early spring garlic or immature garlic bulbs and their edible green stalks. They are still quite delicious and can be used as a seasoning or garnish, though—you'll find their flavor is lighter and gentler than that of fresh garlic.
To grow entire heads of garlic, you'll need to plant outdoors because, like other bulbs think onions and daffodils , they need the cold winter dormancy to produce the scape flower and generate a head. To grow garlic greens indoors, plant three or four cloves in a pot filled with potting soil. Garlic grows best with consistent moisture, not too much and not too little. Step 4: Fertilize for best results. A bit of liquid fertilizer goes a long way.
Try liquid seaweed or fish emulsion sprinkled on the soil surface. Step 5: Sunshine. Garlic grows best with ample sunshine, so place your indoor garlic plant on a sunny windowsill or under grow lights. How to grow garlic indoors in pots Prepare your container by making sure the drainage holes are open but not big enough to allow the soil to wash out.
Choose how you plan to use the garlic. If you are growing for leaves or for baby garlic, you may start harvesting leaves anytime. You can harvest all the leaves, and the plant will regrow until the energy in the clove is exhausted, or pull the smallest plants to use for baby garlic.
Use immature baby garlic and leaves like garlic-flavored green onions. To keep the plant going, harvest the outside leaves and let the inside leaves keep growing to provide energy.
If your plants produce a fleshy, curved scape, cut it off to use in cooking. If you let the scape turn into a flower, the plant will stop putting energy into leaves and bulbs. If you are growing garlic for bulbs it will take a few months. Fall planted garlic produces larger, segmented bulbs. Spring planted garlic will also form a bulb but may not segment into multiple cloves. The plant is done growing when half or more of the leaves turn brown.
Stop watering for at least a week until the soil is dried out. This prevents the bulbs from rotting. Harvesting garlic from containers is easy. Just dump the container and pull out the bulbs. Keep some of the largest bulbs for seed garlic and start your next batch for free. Cure your garlic bulbs by hanging them up in a cool, dry well-ventilated place for a few weeks. This step is essential for your garlic to store well. You are done curing when the leaves and roots are dry and the outer wrapper feels papery.
The larger the bulb and cloves the longer it will take to finish curing. When the curing is complete, clean your garlic for storage by brushing off dirt with a soft brush.
You can remove a layer of outer wrapper for cleaning but try to remove as little of the wrapper as possible in order for the garlic to store longer. Leave the stalks on softneck garlic if you want to braid the garlic, otherwise cut off all but a couple of inches.
Trim the roots if you want to have a clean appearance. You already know how to use garlic cloves and you probably know how to use baby garlic like green onions or scallions.
However, if you have lots of garlic leaves I have two favorite ways to use them up. My first favorite is to make pesto. Pesto uses up lots of leaves and can be frozen in quarter cup portions to use the rest of the year. My second favorite is to make pan-fried flatbreads or pancakes. Use any scallion pancake recipe and use your garlic leaves in place of scallions. Immature garlic can be used like scallions and preserved by freezing or drying.
Keep on reading the below guide to find out how to grow garlic indoors successfully. The size of the container depends on the number of bulbs you wish to grow. Therefore, when you are choosing a container, think of the number of bulbs you intend to grow.
An adequate container should maintain a space of at least four inches between each clove. A good container should be at least 1 inches deep. It should also contain a lot of drainage holes. In order to make growing garlic an extremely easy experience that yields the best results, you can choose one of these amazing self-watering containers. They are effective and most of all they are decorative which is exactly what you need since you are growing garlic indoors. Besides, using these containers will ensure the protection of your plants from root rot as they eliminate overwatering.
You could obtain the garlic cloves either from your local store or directly from farmers. The latter is better as garlic cloves in markets are usually treated with chemicals. In order to grow garlic indoors successfully, you will need a good quality soil. Soil-less potting is an excellent choice as it is well draining and permeable. You could either buy it or make it by mixing peat with compost or manure. Then add perlite and vermiculite. You could also add sand. For best results, when you are filling the container with soil, you should apply a fertilizer.
Fill the container with the organic soil mixture that you have bought or prepared. Then split the cloves of the garlic bulb.
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