Garlic can be a simple crop to grow, but the sight of small, underwhelming bulbs can be disappointing come harvest time. If you want to grow bigger garlic next year, here are six key pointers to learn ...

Growing your own garlic may seem like one of the simpler wins in a home garden, but even reliable crops can bring surprises ...

Garlic (Allium sativum) is usually grown outdoors for its edible bulbs and greens. The good news is that if you don't have a garden or an outdoor space suitable for growing garlic in pots, it is ...

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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 ...

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 ...

With the arrival of September, gardeners begin planting garlic and shallots, establishing crops now for harvest in the following growing season. Like spring flower bulbs, gardeners know garlic and ...

A head of garlic, like tulips or daffodils, is a bulb you can plant in the fall, but it offers more than just beauty. You can harvest the flower stalk and the bulb as well. According to Emma Erler, ...

Gardeners who grow their own garlic often assume the refrigerator will keep bulbs fresh longer, yet this common habit ...

Perennial crops put food on the table year after year. It is a joy to gather kale from the kitchen garden, to cut the first spears of asparagus in spring, and to dig up a fresh garlic bulb in late ...

One of the costliest losses in the landscape is when an animal destroys or disfigures a new tree. A new tree can easily cost $100 these days for even a small one, and they’re particularly vulnerable ...