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 can be planted in spring. Softneck garlic varieties do best in mild ...

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 ...

Garlic has many uses in cuisines from around the world. It is also an easy and rewarding crop for home gardeners. Fall is the ideal time to plant garlic, as a cool period is necessary for the clove to ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Companion planting is a common practice, especially in edible gardening, but this pairing of vegetables with mismatched ...

One of the easiest crops to grow in the home garden is garlic. You plant it in the fall and harvest it in mid-June. And once it is in the soil it requires almost no care, other than applying a thick ...

Frost-tolerant greens, garlic, herbs are among the plants that can be planted well into Charleston’s fall season. What to ...

Plant elephant garlic and you will be gifted with corms that grow off the mother bulb. Yes, although elephant garlic presents as a gigantic bulb made up of cloves, it produces many corms, which, when ...

The months of October and November are not necessarily the end of the gardening season. There is still one crop left to plant ...

Growing garlic indoors creates an endless supply of garlic greens to cook with, and it gives gardeners perfect growing conditions year-round, particularly when soil is too warm for the bulbs in the ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: Plant elephant garlic and you will be gifted with corms that grow off the mother bulb. Yes, although elephant garlic presents as a gigantic bulb made up of ...