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How to Grow Garlic Indoors | Growing Garlic In Pots

Growing garlic in pots indoors is not difficult, and you’ll be able to get the supply of fresh green stalks, flowers, and even the garlic bulbs. Learn more!

If you have ever wondered about how to grow garlic indoors, then the good news is that it is going to be considerably easier than you were perhaps aware. This is something that you will be able to achieve even with next to no previous gardening experience.

What You Need and Getting Started

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When to Plant Garlic Indoors

Usually, the fall is the right planting season, outdoors in our gardens, it’s the time when we plant garlic. However, when growing indoors, you can try to plant garlic anytime in the year.

Choosing a Container and Spacing

Look for a pot around 8-10 inches deep, minimum. If you intend to grow garlic greens, plant the cloves closely. However, if you are thinking about growing garlic bulbs, maintain a four-inch gap between each clove. Also, make sure that the pot has drainage holes in the bottom.

You can try growing garlic indoors from the grocery store garlic, but they are treated with chemicals so for the best result buy from local farmers, order them online or check out your local gardening store for the organic garlic bulbs. Also, remember that you don’t need to remove the paper like husk from cloves.

Planting and Getting them Growing

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The next step is to fill the pot with the organic soil mixture. You then need to remove the individual cloves from the garlic bulbs and make sure that the flat end is going to be pointing down in the soil as that is where the roots come from.

At the time of filling the soil, you can also mix time-based granular fertilizer such as 10-10-10.

When planting them, you need to push the cloves down at least 2-3 inches deep into the soil. There should also be roughly 1 inch of soil between the top of the clove and the top layer of the soil.

Placement and Caring for the Bulbs

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Soil

It is important that you use the right soil that is well-draining, and permeable. Soil-less potting medium is best. You can also make one for yourself instead of buying– Mix peat or cocopeat (coconut fiber), compost or manure, and either perlite or vermiculite (if you don’t have both, use sand) in equal parts.

Location

Once you have planted the bulbs decide where you should place the pot. If there is a room in your home with a South or West facing window where it can receive at least six hours of direct sunlight per day, consider that. You can also purchase indoor grow lights to make life easier, and they can certainly be rather effective.

Watering

Outdoors, garlic prefers evenly moist soil. However, since you’re growing garlic indoors, you may need to careful. Watering must be done according to the indoor growing conditions. Like, how much sunlight and warmth your potted garlic plants are receiving. Regular watering to keep the soil slightly moist is preferable.

Fertilizer

Garlic needs a good amount of fertilizer to grow well, indoors is no different. Fertilize the garlic plant twice a month with organic general purpose fertilizer during the warm growing season. You can also use kelp meal or fish fertilizer to ensure your garlic plant has enough nutrients for optimum growth.

Harvesting

Picking Garlic Greens

With the right soil, sunlight and proper watering, in a week or so you’ll be able to see the fresh new garlic shoots coming out. You can start picking the greens once they are at least 4-6 inches tall, which will happen in just a couple of weeks (depending more on the weather). Leave an inch of growth on each clove to let your garlic plants regrow again.

Harvesting Bulbs

If you’re growing garlic indoors for garlic bulbs, note that it’ll be ready in around eight to ten months and you will know this when you see the leaves starting to turn brown. At this point, you need to remove them from the soil and allow them to dry for a week. By this time, they will be ready to include in your cooking or, of course, you could use some of them to grow your next batch of garlic.


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Growing garlic indoors is not difficult and you'll be able to get the supply of fresh green stalks, flowers, and even the garlic bulbs. Learn more!


laura-bennett1Laura is the founder of HumidGarden.com. She loves nature especially when it comes to flowers and different kinds of plants. Humid Garden is created to provide aspiring and inspiring thoughts about gardening for gardeners and anyone who has the intention of keeping a garden.

2 COMMENTS

  1. I heard that outdoor garlic are larger because they go through a frost. What is your opinion? I want to grow indoors but produce the best quaility I can.

  2. Garlic bulbs are typically broken into cloves and planted in pots for indoor growing at the end of the outdoor gardening season, whenever that might occur in your region. It only takes a couple of weeks for the green shoots to be large enough to begin snipping them off for cooking, but if you want to grow actual garlic bulbs, you ll need to leave the shoots in place and grow the plants through the winter. months. Planted indoors in early fall, you may have harvestable bulbs by early to late spring, provided you were able to give the plants plenty of sunlight. Garlic needs lots of direct sunlight and don t do well with artificial light.

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