Q. A friend recently gave me several heads of elephant garlic from their garden. I’m wondering if it is too late to plant these or should I just plan on using them all in the kitchen? -D. Sutton, ...

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 ...

If you're growing vegetables in your backyard, perhaps it's time to up your game and include something spicy in your harvest from the allium clan of edible bulbs and leaves. All of the following ...

AUMSVILLE, Ore. — Ken Haley has a short answer to the question of why he chose growing fist-sized bulbs of elephant garlic instead of the much-smaller purple garlic. He focused on elephant garlic, as ...

October is the perfect month for planting in Texas. Cloves must be planted in the fall in order for them to receive the required chilling to form bulbs next spring. If you want a great harvest of ...

There are two foods that really make life worth living: chocolate and garlic. While I can’t grow my own chocolate, I certainly can cultivate garlic. It is really easy to grow, and the resulting crop ...

As I’ve written in the past, our gardens are a combination of food production and science projects. Sometimes I’ll plant a variety of something just to see what happens, and sometimes nothing happens.