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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 ...

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, ...

I spent as much time in our garden as I could this season. Recovery from surgery kept me from roaming around out there as much as I normally would, but most of the goodies didn’t go to waste because I ...

October is a great time to start thinking about ordering and planting your garlic, which will be harvested next summer. Did you ever wonder how “garlic” got its name? The word comes from the Old ...

I haven’t talked much about garlic in this column, partly because we are only now approaching the time to plant. That’s right, garlic will be the last thing you plant in your vegetable garden, usually ...

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.

Although you don’t usually plant garlic until mid-October the topic needs some attention now. Garlic is easy to grow, a good companion plant, usually not eaten by wildlife and very popular. Note ...

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 ...