Softneck garlic is the more common variety you buy at the grocery store. It tends to have more cloves per bulb, grows well in a warm climate, and stores for longer. But it has less flavor. Hardneck ...

Planting garlic in the fall is one of the simplest and most rewarding things you can do in your garden. No matter how much ...

Also, Joshua Siskin writes about a California native he’d never seen or heard of began growing in his garden this spring.

What Is Elephant Garlic? Think of elephant garlic as a cross between regular garlic and a leek. Flavor-wise, it is most ...

“By planting garlic in the fall, the cloves have time to go through a chilling period, which is important for bulb and flower ...

They can be planted in the garden but you may have to wait several years until they form a sizable bulb. For this reason, hardneck garlic, like softneck, is typically propagated from cloves ...

Softneck garlic: These have a milder flavor and are ... The scape is the flower stalk, but the flower uses all the energy from the bulb and must be trimmed off (or pulled out, see the below ...