How to Grow a Green Garlic Garnish Without any Soil

Use garlic cloves to sprout fresh tasty greens for garnishes and salad dressings.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• garlic cloves, separated from the bulb
• tiny glass
• windowsill
• water

1. Find a small glass or vase a few inches tall with a narrow neck. Fill it halfway up with cool tap water.
2. Set the fresh, live garlic clove in the glass with room for roots to grow beneath it. You can use a toothpick on each side to hold the clove up if necessary.
3. Add more water so that the garlic clove is partly submerged. Put it in a sunny place. In a week, it should grow roots and shoots.
4. When the top is green and a few inches long, snip off pieces for cooking. The sprout will keep on growing. These healthy leaves are like chives and they are great for garnishing soup and main dishes and for using in salad dressing.
5. Start more cloves when the first ones start getting long roots. You'll always have a supply of garlic greens.

Tips & Warnings

• You can grow garlic bulbs in soil, instead. Sometimes I stick a few into my pots with the houseplants.
• If your garlic gets too large and plump, remove the papery covering and use the rest in cooking the usual way.
• If you want to grow whole garden bulbs, plant cloves in fall in a rich, sunny garden and harvest the cloves the following summer.
• When growing the greens in water, keep your eye on the glass and make sure the clove or its roots are always touching the water.