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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Growing garlic is simple, but there is a second underrated crop from hardneck varieties, and this one is rarely seen in stores. So, when you see stems coming out of plants in late spring or early ...

CORVALLIS — Fall is a time to enjoy the harvest of summer, but don’t hang up your trowel and pull off your gloves just yet — September through November is the best time to plant garlic. Garlic roots ...

Garlic is an easy crop that will grow anywhere in the U.S., when planted the right way at the right time. For the best, biggest garlic, plant in autumn during the window of time ideal for your USDA ...

BOISE, Idaho — Most of our vegetable gardens have the usual kinds of things – tomatoes, beans, cucumbers and squash, but have you ever grown garlic? Garden master Jim Duthie shows us his first attempt ...

Get the best flavor and longest storage life from your homegrown garlic with proper harvesting, curing and storage. Then fill that space with a quick-maturing vegetable for a tasty fall harvest.

Last fall I planted garlic and shallots. Thinking about them now takes me back to those early spring days when the covering was removed and the seaweed pushed aside. This allowed those first traces of ...

Nick and Joan Olson will step outside their rural Litchfield home every morning this week and be greeted by the sweet smell of success. Success will smell a lot like garlic. But that’s life on a ...