There’s nothing more disappointing than growing garlic for months, only to dig up tiny bulbs that are barely worth peeling.
Gardeners preparing beds this season often face a familiar dilemma: ordering too much seed garlic or falling short when it ...
Planting garlic in the fall is one of the simplest and most rewarding things you can do in your garden. No matter how much experience you have, garlic is a forgiving crop that rewards patience.
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! October has arrived with some gorgeous fall weather. Summer is in the rearview ...
If garlic isn't on your fall planting list, there's still time to make room for it. Give it a sunny spot, good soil, and a ...
Garlic (Allium sativum) has been cultivated for thousands of years and is an incredibly easy vegetable to grow. While grocery stores tend to carry only one or two types of garlic, hundreds of garlic ...
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 ...
Plenty of gardeners treat October as cleanup month. The tomato cages come down and the squash vines get yanked, then the beds sit bare until spring. That ground still has plenty of use left in it, ...
Fall is the time for planting some of our favorite vegetables. Collard greens, mustard, kale and some root vegetables like turnips which are eaten for leaves but also their storage bulbs are a treat ...
The gardening season has rushed past us quicker than usual this year — at least it feels that way to me. It seems like we just finished harvesting our garlic crop and now it’s already time to plant ...