The softball-sized bulbs of elephant garlic come as a surprise to those who don’t know about this leek relative. Instead of growing a solid bulb like a leek, the plants form a bulb that looks like ...

AUMSVILLE, Ore. — Ken Haley has a short answer to the question of why he chose growing fist-sized bulbs of elephant garlic instead of the much-smaller purple garlic. He focused on elephant garlic, as ...

As I’ve written in the past, our gardens are a combination of food production and science projects. Sometimes I’ll plant a variety of something just to see what happens, and sometimes nothing happens.

The member of the leek family is entering peak season Elephant garlic appeals to a broad range of tastes, including folks who don't care for common garlic. This may be because elephant garlic is ...

Craig Hansen brings hundreds of pounds of garlic to City Market in his pickup. He starts each day by bagging cloves of garlic before he gets too busy to restock the table. Craig Hansen has been ...

Q. A friend recently gave me several heads of elephant garlic from their garden. I’m wondering if it is too late to plant these or should I just plan on using them all in the kitchen? -D. Sutton, ...

October is the perfect month for planting in Texas. Cloves must be planted in the fall in order for them to receive the required chilling to form bulbs next spring. If you want a great harvest of ...

There are two foods that really make life worth living: chocolate and garlic. While I can’t grow my own chocolate, I certainly can cultivate garlic. It is really easy to grow, and the resulting crop ...

Q. Can you help me to determine what is meant by “cloves of garlic” as a measurement? For example, so many recipes call for amounts along the lines of “2 cloves of garlic, minced” or “3 cloves of ...

This week's look at what's new, bountiful or mysterious in the produce aisles. The following is a true story: One night a group of twenty-somethings went out for tapas and drinks. A certain reveler, ...