Once your spoil is prepared (Growing Gourmet Garlic: Planting Part 3 – When to Plant and Soil Preparation) choose a likely day for planting, and crack your bulbs accordingly. Bulbs of gourmet garlic ...

Summer is a hive of activity in the garden, with many popular fruits and vegetables reaching maturity and becoming ready to harvest. The majority of these crops would have been planted in the spring, ...

Walt and I plant a lot of garlic every year, just so we can survive between one harvest and the next. Last year’s harvest was so disastrous (2/3 of our crop rotted in the ground because of early ...

BOISE — Most of us are busy putting our gardens to bed for the winter, but there’s something you can plant now that will grow through the winter and be ready for a delicious harvest come next spring.

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 ...

I haven’t talked much about garlic in this column, partly because we are only now approaching the time to plant. That’s right, garlic will be the last thing you plant in your vegetable garden, usually ...

Now that cooler fall weather has returned, it’s time to plant spring blooming bulbs. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS Home and Garden Expert Larry Pfarr shares some tips on which bulbs to plant that the deer and ...

Starting garlic indoors doesn't have to wait for spring, and a simple water setup can give cloves an early boost before ...

If you've got your trowel out for your daffodils and tulip bulbs, keep it handy to plant your garlic. Garlic is a bulb in the Allium family, which includes onions, chives and leeks. Like many spring ...

Q: I’d like to add some bulbs to our landscape, in particular snowdrops, Spanish bluebell and winter aconite for some early color. Where can I buy these varieties? I haven’t seen them at the usual ...