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 ...

You have gotten your garlic out of the ground, now the next step is to prepare it for curing and storage. The two main processes involved here are trimming and cleaning, and you will find that the ...

Homegrown garlic is such a luxury for cooks who love fresh ingredients. If you’ve ever wondered how to grow garlic, you’ll be pleased to know it’s one of the easiest crops to master. Just plant a few ...

Fall-planted garlic grows at the Iowa State University Student Organic Farm north of Ames. Garlic may not be the first crop that comes to mind when thinking of Iowa, but many varieties do very well in ...

Garlic is easy to grow and can add flavor and zip to home cooking. Garlic is one of the easier and more trouble-free vegetables you can grow in your garden. It is ideally suited to northern Colorado ...

It’s a staple in almost every kitchen and world cuisine. It’s delicious and nutritious — with a side benefit of keeping vampires in check — but if you’re going to grow your own garlic you have to do ...

Garlic is a favored item used almost daily in our kitchen. The flavor adds wonderful taste to marinades, salads, salad dressings, pastas, stir fry, dips and many ethnic dishes. Raw garlic has a ...

the best time to plant garlic, like this German Extra Hardy garlic, in our area is from late September to mid-October, depending on where you live. (Southern Exposure Seed Exchange) Most of us have at ...

It’s late spring and last summer’s garlic stash is almost gone. Fortunately, harvesting garlic planted last fall is near at hand. By late June or early July, when the tops of the garlic plants are ...

Here are some of the responses to the column on storing and curing garlic: In the article on garlic storage (Golden Gate Gardener, July 7), Pam Peirce mentions storing it under olive oil, and only ...