People keep asking, “Is it too late to plant garlic?” The answer is no. But it might be too late to go digging in your garden soil. Things might be a bit heavy and muddy. So, here is what you can do: ...

Choose a spot in full sun, which is considered 6 or more hours of direct sunlight. Garlic doesn’t like wet feet, so make sure ...

As the chilly temps and shorter days of autumn bring the end of our summer gardens, there’s one very useful root vegetable we can ...

Garlic is essentially hands-off, and then you get to harvest home-grown garlic next June. Plus, garlic keeps a pretty long ...

We are getting ready to plant garlic at the Orchard and it should be in the ground and irrigated by mid-November. We will be testing somewhere between 18 and 27 varieties. Garlic is planted in the ...

As we enter the middle of fall, it’s time to plant garlic! Garlic is a member of the allium family along with onions, shallots, and leeks, and is botanically considered a bulb. It is covered in an ...

Garlic is well known for its culinary gifts, but this relative of onions and leeks is also a gift to gardeners. Easy to plant and low maintenance, it only requires some simple weeding and patience in ...

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 ...

When planting a container, mix plants of different heights for a layered effect. Try something different from the typical tall plant in the center with a ring of shorter plants and instead include ...