How do I Soak Garlic Seed?

Before you can grow your very own garlic plants, you must soak garlic seeds. Soaking the seeds helps ward off pests and disease by helping speed up the germination process. Garlic makes a wonderful addition to almost any savory recipe and is particularly popular in pasta and stir fry dishes. It also provides numerous health benefits including improving heart health. Growing your own garlic leads to fresh flavors and a lot of savings.

Garlic bulbs
Large bowl
Warm water
1 tbsp. baking soda
1 tbsp. liquid seaweed
1 tbsp. vinegar
Rubbing alcohol

Instructions

- 1
  Separate your garlic bulbs into their individual cloves. Chose the biggest bulbs from the biggest cloves for best results.
- 2
  Fill your large bowel with approximately 1 gallon of water. Add the liquid seaweed, vinegar and baking soda to the water. You may want to do this outside, as the mixture emits a very strong odor.
- 3
  Soak the garlic seeds in the mixture overnight. During the soak, the skins of the garlic cloves will fall off.
- 4
  Fill a bowl with rubbing alcohol and place the soaked garlic seeds in this bowl for a few minutes.
- 5
  Plant the seeds as soon as possible. Try not to let more than 48 hours pass between breaking apart the bulbs and planting the seeds.

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