People keep asking, “Is it too late to plant garlic?” The answer is no. But it might be too late to go digging in your garden soil. Things might be a bit heavy and muddy. So, here is what you can do: ...

Choose a spot in full sun, which is considered 6 or more hours of direct sunlight. Garlic doesn’t like wet feet, so make sure ...

With so many garlic varieties available to grow, how do you know where to start? Compare different types for your needs and ...

Flavoursome garlic is an essential ingredient in so many recipes. Easy to grow in the garden, it doesn’t take up too much space and it can be started off in the autumn or late winter in the ground or ...

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 ...

Garlic is well known for its culinary gifts, but this relative of onions and leeks is also a gift to gardeners. Easy to plant and low maintenance, it only requires some simple weeding and patience in ...

Experienced gardeners know fall is the best time to plant garlic. It is not too late, and in fact, you can plant garlic cloves through the end of December. Recent rains have now softened the soil, ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: 1. Now is a good time to bring some garlic home from the grocery store and put it in your refrigerator for planting in October. Garlic benefits from a month ...

Garlic is a bulb with joined segments (called cloves) that make up a head. Each clove is actually a miniature bulb that stores energy to sprout and create a new plant. Garlic is almost always planted ...

When you harvested your garlic, did you find a lot of little bulblike growths where the flower was or hard bulbils in the soil around the heads (some protected by the papery covering of the heads)?