The invention discloses a backlight control method and apparatus, and a liquid crystal display apparatus. The main content of the method comprises the following steps: from the time when it is monitored that a first row of pixels in an N-th row image subarea of a current image frame starts driving scanning, switching off a backlight lamp of a backlight subarea for a time length of t, wherein t is scanning black frame insertion time; after the backlight lamp of the backlight subarea is switched off for the time length of t, switching on the backlight lamp of the backlight subarea for a preset time length, and enabling backlight brightness of the current backlight subarea to satisfy needed brightness; and after the backlight lamp of the backlight subarea is switched on for the preset time length, setting the backlight lamp of the backlight subarea to be closed. In such a way, a tailing phenomenon generated due to a visual persistence effect is effectively improved, at the same time, it is ensured that the backlight brightness of each backlight subarea is the same, the brightness uniformity of the backlight subarea is improved, and the display quality of a liquid crystal display apparatus is effectively improved.