How to Grow Garlic on a Balcony: Methods and Steps Explained

It is already autumn now, and many friends want to grow some vegetables to eat, but what vegetables are simple to grow and easy to manage? The vegetables recommended below can be grown well without any skill, and every household needs them in the kitchen. They are garlic sprouts, chives, baby greens and lettuce. Below is an introduction to how to grow garlic on a balcony.

1. Hydroponic garlic

1. You only need to prepare some garlic that is not damaged or moldy. You can harvest several rounds from it, and it is also fairly clean, simple and hygienic.

2. Whether or not the garlic bulbs have sprouted, they can be grown hydroponically. You only need to prepare a container for hydroponics. Place it in a bright spot, and top up the water when it runs out.

3. After harvesting one round, keep growing it hydroponically. You can also give it some diluted decomposed organic fertilizer water and more sunlight so the leaves grow fast and well.

4. When harvesting for the first time, do not cut too low, because it will keep growing leaves. If grown well hydroponically, you can still eat one or two more rounds.

2. Soil-grown garlic

1. This grows more robustly, with thicker stems and leaves. If grown well, you may even harvest garlic scapes and garlic bulbs later.

2. Before sowing garlic, prepare fertile soil. It is not picky about soil, but the richer the better. You can use leaf mold with a little coal cinder or sand, garden soil, and you can also add some decomposed chicken manure, cow manure, farmyard manure, etc.

3. Prepare garlic that is not moldy. After breaking apart the bulb, insert the cloves one by one into the soil at a depth of about two centimeters, leaving just the tip exposed. Water thoroughly, but do not turn it into mud, then place it in a sunny, ventilated spot. Generally, they will sprout and emerge in a week.

4. After the seedlings have grown for a week and are fairly uniform, give them a little organic fertilizer water. If you are not squeamish, or cannot find fertilizer, you can use a child's urine, let it ferment in a drink bottle for a while, then dilute it and water it in. Do not use too much, otherwise it is easy to burn the roots.

5. Increase its nutrition, and after more than ten days it can grow to about a foot tall. At this point you can pick the garlic sprouts to eat. Remember to cut them with scissors, because if you give a little more fertilizer, they will keep growing and you can eat one or two more rounds. After two months, add a little more fertilizer. It will grow especially fast, and the garlic sprouts will grow taller and taller. By then they may even bolt and produce scapes.

6. After bolting, about twenty-odd days later, you can pull them out of the pot soil roots and all, and harvest the garlic bulbs. The garlic Xiaoya grows in flower pots does not get as big as that grown in open ground, but there is still quite a lot. If grown on a terrace or in a rooftop flower bed, the garlic bulbs harvested are even more.

The above is an introduction to garlic growing methods. Garlic is a vegetable many people like to eat, and it is especially simple to grow, so everyone can grow garlic in soil or hydroponically according to their own needs. I hope the content introduced here can help you grow extremely lush garlic.