One of the benefits of growing your own fruit and vegetables is having a steady flow of home-grown crops to enjoy throughout fall and winter. Aside from pickling, preserving or freezing a bumper ...

Fresh garlic will soon be ready to harvest. Planted between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15, garlic is usually ready for harvest in July or August. It nicely complements the fresh tomatoes and basil available ...

Garlic bulbs are typically harvested in summer when the plant’s leaves start to yellow and dry out. Unless you intend to freeze, can, or use the garlic in recipes immediately, fresh garlic must be ...

Garlic, a member of the onion family, has been used as a traditional medicine and to add flavor to food for thousands of years. It is native to central Asia, but is very easy to grow in our northern ...

Why are my garlic cloves brown? I grow it from certified disease-free heads and rotate the garlic to avoid disease. We see from your photo that you’ve cut off the stem and roots. We suspect the garlic ...