Homegrown garlic is such a luxury for cooks who love fresh ingredients. If you’ve ever wondered how to grow garlic, you’ll be pleased to know it’s one of the easiest crops to master. Just plant a few ...

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 ...

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 can be planted in spring. Softneck garlic varieties do best in mild ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Garlic is a bit of a garden anomaly. It’s planted in fall and then hangs out until mid-summer, harvested in time to give you a tiny window to grow ...

Cooks revere it, vampires fear it, gardeners nurture it. Herbalists swear by it, and historians expound on it. Garlic's credentials could make an onion weep. It's harder to find something garlic doesn ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Before my own vegetable garden got established, I signed up for a produce share from Fresh Fork Market. Fortunately, the weekly email explained some of the more unusual items that ...

A good elephant garlic is about the size of a softball – quite a bit bigger than the better-known redskin garlic that’s about the size of a golf ball. One section or ”clove” of an elephant garlic can ...