When planting garlic seedlings in autumn, try to choose excellent early-maturing multi-petal garlic seeds.

Before planting, garlic seedlings should be divided into three stages according to large, medium and small petals, and the separated garlic seedlings should be soaked in well water (low water temperature) 12 hours to break the dormancy of garlic seedlings and promote the rapid germination of garlic seedlings. All kinds of garlic varieties can be used to cultivate green garlic seedlings, and there are varieties suitable for cultivating green garlic seedlings everywhere.

In the past, many varieties with small petals were used to cultivate garlic seedlings, such as dog tooth garlic. This method saves garlic seeds and has low cost, but the garlic seedlings are slender, with low yield and poor quality. In many places, large petal varieties are used to cultivate green garlic seedlings. Cultivating large-petalled green garlic seedlings has a large amount of seeds and a slightly higher cost, but it has high yield, good quality and vigorous growth.

There are varieties of garlic seedlings specially cultivated in China, such as Quanzhou Meat Garlic in Guangxi. Garlic cloves are light and fat, and garlic seedlings grow vigorously with high yield. When cultivating green garlic seedlings in early autumn, varieties with short dormancy period should be selected in order to germinate and emerge early after sowing. In Shandong province, purple garlic is suitable at this time.