Garlic is considered a cool-season vegetable and requires a chilling period for the best growth. Learn more about growing ...

Growing garlic requires minimal effort but yields a lot of flavor. Garlic (Allium sativum) is one of the easiest crops to grow. Simply plant a clove in the soil, cover it with straw, and wait for ...

Do you love cooking with garlic? Experts reveal when is the best time to plant garlic — and you might be surprised.

There are two types: Softneck, which has a flexible stem and keeps well for a long time; the long stems are good for braiding. The other type is hardneck, which has a stiff central stem and doesn’t ...

Like humans who have similar traits to our relatives, so does the plant genus, Allium, part of the Amaryllidaceae family. The Allium genus is made up of edibles (onion, garlic, leeks, chives) and ...

Growing garlic can seem like a daunting task. It's not as hard as growing tomatoes, but growing garlic does require a fair amount of time and patience. How long does it take garlic to grow? On average ...

As we start to bring in the harvest from our gardens, we begin looking forward to next season. We start cleaning off garden space, working up the ground and preparing to plant. One of the most popular ...

While it’s tempting to treat garlic as a plant-and-forget crop, it will only reward you richly if you treat it well. A clove planted in the fall won’t magically turn into a fat bulb by summer unless ...

Hopefully some readers were gifted with rain during the past week! This isn’t the case for most of us (me included), who are dragging garden hoses around the property daily to provide much needed ...

October is a great time to start thinking about ordering and planting your garlic, which will be harvested next summer. Did you ever wonder how “garlic” got its name? The word comes from the Old ...