garlic

 Being an Italian-American who likes to cook, I eat a lot of garlic (Allium tuberosum). Lucky for me growing garlic is almost as easy as eating it. Growing your own garlic offers some distinct advantages. You can try unusual varieties with spicy hot to almost a nutty flavor. You can grow softneck garlic which is great for braiding or hard neck varieties that produce scapes (green curlycue flower stalks) in early summer that can be eaten for a mild garlic flavor. You can grow garlic in a small space. You can produce more than 25 bulbs in a...

Learn about garlic, including how to plant and grow them. Listen to Podcast: podcast transcript How to Grow: Garlic Being an Italian-American who likes to cook, I eat a lot of garlic (Allium tuberosum). Lucky for me growing garlic is almost as easy as eating it. Growing your own garlic offers some distinct advantages. You can try unusual varieties with spicy hot to almost a nutty flavor. You can grow softneck garlic which is great for braiding or hard neck varieties that produce scapes (green curlycue flower stalks) in early summer that...

Learn about growing unusual garlic relatives such as shallots and walking onions. Listen to podcast: When the calendar turns to October, it's garlic planting time. While many of us know of hardneck and softneck garlics, there are some unusual garlic relatives that are also planted now. Elephant garlic is a bit misnamed. It's more closely related to leeks, but grows like garlic. It produces enormous bulbs (hence the elephant name) that are twice the size of the largest, regular garlic. With large cloves as well bulbs, you might think it...

Learn how to harvest garlic. In this video learn when to harvest garlic, how to pull the garlic without breaking the stem, how to cure garlic and how to store it indoors. Learn more about growing garlic here.