Mar. 23—This story was originally published in March 2019. Although garlic is usually planted in the fall, planting garlic in the spring will yield a harvest. But it's a different growing and ...

Garlic is a beloved aromatic plant that is a staple in a myriad of cuisines. It’s also been used for centuries for its purported healing properties, including protecting against the common cold and ...

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 ...

There’s something special about garlic. It stands bold in the kitchen, elevates meals, wards off blandness, and carries ...

For some of us, planting time is long past − but not for me. I am always busy in the fall, planting everything I can. It is almost time to plant garlic, which is my easiest crop of all. And I’ll soon ...

Garlic plants require at least six hours of bright indirect light daily to grow properly, and this is particularly important ...

Hopefully some readers were gifted with rain during the past week! This isn’t the case for most of us (me included), who are dragging garden hoses around the property daily to provide much needed ...

Planting supermarket garlic may produce a crop, but ideally, use the hefty bulbs sold for planting, as the larger cloves will give a better crop more reliably. Autumn-planted garlic usually matures in ...

Fall officially begins in less than a week, welcoming in cooler temperatures across Michigan and heralding the end of the growing season. Fall is when gardeners need to prepare for spring, though, by ...