Garlic is considered a cool-season vegetable and requires a chilling period for the best growth. Learn more about growing ...

Not all store-bought garlic cloves will sprout, but with the right bulbs, timing, and a few simple techniques, you can enjoy ...

Do you love cooking with garlic? Experts reveal when is the best time to plant garlic — and you might be surprised.

Like humans who have similar traits to our relatives, so does the plant genus, Allium, part of the Amaryllidaceae family. The Allium genus is made up of edibles (onion, garlic, leeks, chives) and ...

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 ...

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If the garlic continues to stay in the ground after the cloves have separated and begun to grow new shoots, the bulbs will ...

Q: I like to grow garlic. I read that you should cut off the scapes when they start forming in late summer so I always do that, but this year I missed several. They formed a thing that looks like a ...

Do not plant garlic in insufficient sun, poorly draining soil, or next to legume crops. Avoid growing garlic in containers less than 6 to 8 inches deep. Skip areas with very alkaline soils and where ...

Individual cloves that are split from golfball-sized bulbs are ideally planted in Pennsylvania in mid to late October.