Before planting garlic cloves from your kitchen, here’s what to know about better options. Garlic from the grocery store may sprout, but it will likely produce undersized cloves. By planting grocery ...

As we enter the middle of fall, it’s time to plant garlic! Garlic is a member of the allium family along with onions, shallots, and leeks, and is botanically considered a bulb. It is covered in an ...

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 ...

Fall is one of the best times to be in your garden. The days are bright and sunny, but it’s cooler and there’s still plenty of time to enjoy being outdoors. It’s also the time to plant garlic, which ...

Autumn in the garden is generally spent cleaning up from the summer growing season. For those gardeners who enjoy planting more than clean-up, which is most of us, sowing garlic offers the opportunity ...

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 ...

Garlic belongs to the allium family, which includes onions, shallots, chives, and even some ornamental plants. People have strong feelings about garlic; they either love it or hate it. Whether you add ...