Garlic prefers loose, well-draining soil – a loam or sandy loam soil works best. Good soil structure and drainage are key to ...

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

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

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 ...

A head of garlic, like tulips or daffodils, is a bulb you can plant in the fall that will pay dividends in spring.

In our household, garlic reigns king and is used in almost every evening meal prepared! Garlic is incredibly pungent once chopped, releasing its powerful aroma. The flavor of garlic is a bit spicy if ...

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 ...

Mid- to late October is the time for planting garlic. It should go in the ground after the first frost but before the ground freezes. You want the soil to be warm so the roots develop, but the air ...

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 ...