If you want a large and healthy crop of garlic bulbs by this summer, you may want to consider fertilizing your garlic now. October is the best month to plant garlic in most places in Oregon, and by ...

Question: I planted garlic in late November. I've not seen it sprout up. I dug around and can't find it anywhere. Could rodents have eaten it? By the way, my October-planted shallots are doing fine.

Garlic can be a simple crop to grow, but the sight of small, underwhelming bulbs can be disappointing come harvest time. If you want to grow bigger garlic next year, here are six key pointers to learn ...

Garlic (Allium sativum) is usually grown outdoors for its edible bulbs and greens. However, with some skill, you can learn how to grow garlic indoors, which is a perfect solution for urban growers who ...

Fall is the prime time for planting garlic to grow your own large, plump cloves. Getting garlic in the ground before it freezes yields the best results. If you miss your fall planting window, you can ...

Fall-planted garlic grows at the Iowa State University Student Organic Farm north of Ames. Garlic may not be the first crop that comes to mind when thinking of Iowa, but many varieties do very well in ...

Fertilize garlic in the spring if you want a big, healthy crop of bulbs by summer. The best way to fertilize growing garlic plants is either by side-dressing, working in a little fertilizer alongside ...

This year the month of May seemed to be the monsoon season in our part of the state. Whoever thought we would be hoping for rain in June. At my place, we had over 8 inches in May and about ¾ inch in ...

Garlic (Allium sativum) is a culinary staple in many kitchens and is best planted in fall, at least three weeks before the ground freezes so the roots have a chance to develop, but the shoots do not ...

Garlic has long had an association with the spooky season: The pungent bulb tends to ward off fanged members of the undead in vampire books and movies. But October is not just a time that garlic makes ...

Plant and Soil, Vol. 67, No. 1/3, NITROGEN CYCLING IN ECOSYSTEMS OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN (1982), pp. 187-191 (5 pages) We examined the distribution of residual ¹⁵N and its uptake by a ...