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 ...

Planting garlic in the fall is one of the simplest and most rewarding things you can do in your garden. No matter how much experience you have, garlic is a forgiving crop that rewards patience.

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garlic cloves take 250-270 days to mature into a large bulb. The biggest and best-tasting garlic is planted in the fall, though it ...

One of my last gardening projects each fall is to plant garlic. There is something about breaking the heads apart and setting each clove in the ground that is very satisfying. I look at it as a ...

Unlike most food crops that are planted in the spring, garlic is planted in the fall, sometime around Columbus Day. Fresh garlic can be found in the kitchens of those who enjoy cooking, but it’s not ...

Growing garlic involves less work than anything else I grow. There really are only 3 steps: plant it, mulch it, and harvest it. It’s also the least expensive, once you have an established bed of ...

Last fall was the first time we ever planted garlic in a hugelkultur bed. If you don’t know what a hugelkultur bed is, I wrote about it a while back, you can scroll through my posts to find about it.

After you have ripped out those moldy summer zucchini vines, consider replacing them with garlic. After tasting fresh homegrown garlic, you might never want the store stuff again. Right now, local ...

WASHINGTON — One of the most satisfyingly tactile jobs in the autumn garden is the planting of garlic cloves. You take plump bulbs, which are both firm and silky to the touch, peel off the outer dried ...

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 ...

Your garlic bed is quiet. Too quiet. You planted those cloves with care, tucked them into the soil, waited patiently... and nothing happened. No green shoots. No signs of life. Just dirt staring back ...