Catalog
1.Morphological features
2.Distribution range
3.Planting techniques
4.Buying tips
5.Nutritional value
Morphological features
Garlic, perennial herbs, with a strong garlic odor. Bulb large-shaped, with 6 to 10 cloves, the outer gray-white or lavender in the membranous scales. Leaves basal, solid, flattened, linear-lanceolate, about 2.5 cm wide, base sheath-like. Flowering stem erect, ca. 60 cm tall; spathe with a long beak, 7-10 cm long Umbels, small and dense, with 1-3 bracts, lamellae 8-10 cm long, membranous, light green flowers small, interflowered with reddish bead buds, 4 mm long, or completely without bead buds; petiole fine, longer than flowers; perianth 6, pink, elliptic-lanceolate; stamens 6, white, anthers prominent; pistil 1, style prominent, white, ovary superior, longer than flowers. white, ovary superior, long elliptic-ovate, apex concave, 3-loculed. Capsule, 1-loculed dehiscent. Seeds black. Fl. summer.
Range of distribution
It is widespread in China, mainly in North China, Northwest and Northeast.
Planting techniques
Planting the autumn garlic seedlings strive to choose excellent early maturity multi-clove garlic seeds. Before planting to separate the garlic seedling plate, according to the large, medium and small cloves into three levels, separate the garlic seeds in the well water (well water temperature is lower) soaked for 12 hours to break the dormancy of the garlic seeds, to promote fast sprouting. Various varieties of garlic can be used to cultivate green garlic seedlings, each place has its own varieties suitable for cultivation of green garlic seedlings. In the past, most of the small clove varieties, such as the use of dog-tooth garlic to cultivate garlic seedlings. This practice saves garlic seeds, low cost, but the garlic seedlings are slender, low yield, poor quality. All over the world more than with large cloves varieties to cultivate green garlic seedlings. Large clove species for green garlic seedling cultivation, with a large amount of seed, the cost is slightly higher, but the yield is very high, good quality, vigorous growth. Domestic cultivation of garlic seedlings of special varieties, such as Guangxi's Quanzhou meat garlic, the kind of garlic cloves taste light but fat, grow garlic seedlings thick and high-yield. In the early fall cultivation of green garlic seedlings, should be selected with short dormancy varieties, so that early germination after sowing seedlings. In Shandong at this time to purple garlic is appropriate.
Shopping tips
High-quality garlic seedlings, tender green leaves (garlic yellow for the tender yellow), pseudostem long and tender white, complete and sturdy, no breaks, leaves do not dry, no spots, garlic seedlings clean without soil. Sub-quality garlic plants. Leaves are soft and shriveled, but not withered, the plant is thin and short, the garlic plants are not clean, there is mud. Inferior quality garlic seedlings. The leaves are dry and spotted, the whole plant is incomplete, there is broken damage, there are rotten plants or rotten leaves.
Nutritional value
Garlic seedlings are high in nutrients, protein, fat, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, carotene, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, niacin, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, zinc, selenium, copper, manganese, and other nutrients needed by the body. As well as allicin, allicin and other ingredients. /p>