Although you don’t usually plant garlic until mid-October the topic needs some attention now. Garlic is easy to grow, a good companion plant, usually not eaten by wildlife and very popular. Note ...

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 buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Garlic scapes are one of those little surprises in the garden that many ...

Most farmers harvest their crops in the fall, but Luke Ahrndt and Brian Neff just planted theirs in late September. With their garlic cloves tucked into bed for the winter, patience is a virtue for ...

Q: I like to grow garlic. I read that you should cut off the scapes when they start forming in late summer so I always do that, but this year I missed several. They formed a thing that looks like a ...

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 ...

Garlic is grown for its pungently flavored bulbs. Originally from Central Asia, garlic has been cultivated in the Mediterranean for more than five thousand years. Garlic is a good source of vitamin A ...

Our garlic is entering into a new stage of growth. This is the time of year when hard neck garlic, also called stiff neck, sends up flower stalk-like structures called garlic scapes. Each garlic plant ...

If you have ever wanted to try your hand at growing garlic, now is the time to think about planting it. Garlic should be planted between Halloween and Thanksgiving, and you will want to start with a ...

It’s small, it’s stinky and it can allegedly ward off vampires. It’s garlic, and it’s also apparently gaining quite a bit of popularity with home gardeners. According to a recent poll conducted by ...