Garlic that has sprouted is not only edible, it can also be grown on the windowsill with chives and later planted in the garden.
Sometimes garlic sprout faster than you can see.
The toes are actually too good to throw away, because you can still eat both the germs and the toes.
If you like, you can make a virtue out of necessity and pull the tuber higher in the house so that the sprouts can be harvested like chives.
Alternatively, they can be further cultivated in soil and later come outdoors.
Getting the garlic to sprout: cut greens from the windowsill
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Sprouting garlic is not a case for the dustbin, but still edible.
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Sprouting garlic is not toxic but provides fresh greens, whether eaten raw or in place of spring onions in warm dishes.
Anyone who likes to harvest fresh greens from the windowsill can put the garlic in a glass of water and watch the plant sprout quickly.
According to mdr Garten
, local garlic
is best for this .
Foreign tubers from the supermarket are often treated with sprout inhibitors, which means that the clove does not root reliably or the plant does not survive the winter if you want to plant it out.
A small shot glass is enough for a single clove, a whole tuber with sprouting cloves looks particularly attractive in a larger water or wine glass.
It is important that only the roots, but not the tuber itself, are permanently in the water, for example by choosing a glass whose diameter is smaller than the tuber.
Rotten parts of the plant should be removed quickly and the water should be changed regularly.
Alternatively, you can use kitchen paper as a basis, which you always keep moist.
Within about five days, the toes will begin to sprout profusely.
When they are about four inches long, the sprouts are ready to harvest.
A longer harvest is possible if you always cut off the leaves from the outside and let the main shoot grow.
Incidentally, this cultivation method, regrowing, also works with onions and leeks.
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Planting garlic: from the glass to the bed
If that's not enough for you, you can continue scouring the garlic in a pot with soil.
To do this, simply detach the toes from the tuber, if you have not already done so.
Then you put them in the ground so that they are covered with earth except for the green sprout.
Keep the pot light and water occasionally.
After the ice saints, the cloves can then be planted in the loosened bed.
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