Some people may not like the taste and smell of garlic, but it’s a super-healthy plant you can grow at home. Eating an entire bulb every day will have your body feeling great!
Garlic is a simple food that has strong healing properties. It’s rich in nutrients like Nitrogenous Substances, Sodium, Potassium, Selenium, Calcium, Magnesium, Silicon, Sulfuric, Phosphoric Acid, Vitamin C, D, B, Phytosterols, Extractives, And Essential Oils.
The amazing benefits of garlic are best enjoyed when you crush or grind it. By breaking down the plant’s cells, allicin is released and can do wonders for your immune system!
Researchers believe that allicin has a strong bacteriostatic effect, which means it can cure infections quite faster.
In fact garlic is packed full of anti-fungal agents and these make its power much greater when compared with many antibiotics used today!
How To Grow An Endless Supply Of Garlic Indoors
- A couple of garlic bulbs (or heads)
- organic potting soil
- 1 planting pot
NOTE: For best results, either use organic garlic or wait until you see the cloves begin to sprout on their own. If they are able to form nubbins of roots at this point it means that all is well and there shouldn’t be any adverse effects!
Instructions:
Take a large pot and fill it with potting soil, then separate each cloves and put each clove into their own vertical space at an inch deep.
Cover these spaces with at least an inch of soil if possible, and make sure you provide maximum exposure to sunlight which will help them grow strong roots!
Water the pot when it starts to dry out, same as you do with any indoor plant. Then cut back on its water allowance by about half and leave an inch so that they can regrow into even more delicious greens!
What should you remember?
When you see dried-up leaves and browning bulbs, pull out a clove from each of them.
They should form full bulbs which can later be harvested for planting new seedlings in the springtime!
When to plant garlic
The best time to plant cloves is in fall after the first frost, but they can also be planted at any point during winter as soon as soil has cooled out.
Fall-planted garlic bulb size will generally produce bigger bulbs than those grown during warmer months.
To keep garlic happy, provide it with plenty of moisture but don’t let them stay underwater for too long.
It’s best to grow varieties from zones 9-11 which are better suited for cold weather conditions because they need less heat than other parts of the country receive during winter months!
Garlic types to try
Soft neck types grow best where winters are mild, though some tolerate cold to Zone 5. Soft necks can be braided or arranged into lovely flower crowns for your table!
Hardneck types of garlic produce delicious curled scapes in early summer. Most common subtypes include porcelain, purple stripe and rocambole varieties, which all have different traits to celebrate!
The elephant garlic is a large-bodied, mild flavored bulb comprised of 4 to 6 big cloves. The hardiness makes it an ideal candidate for Zone 5 growers if they are given deep winter mulch in colder climates.