One of the easiest crops to grow in the home garden is garlic. You plant it in the fall and harvest it in mid-June.

Learn how to grow and care for garlic, an allium that thrives in a variety of conditions and can be used in the kitchen.

Generally garlic grown indoors can be harvested roughly 3 months ahead of garlic grown outdoors, so if you plant garlic cloves in fall you should be able to harvest them in spring.

Garlic (Allium sativum) is one of the easiest crops to grow. Simply plant a clove in the soil, cover it with straw, and wait for spring.

Growing garlic at home is easy, and now is the time to start planting. Instead of planting seeds, you plant individual cloves. Garlic produces a bulb-like structure called a head.

Garlic can also be frozen. Place the whole bulb, individual cloves, or peeled, chopped cloves in a single layer in a plastic ...

To set garlic, separate cloves from the head and plant each clove with the pointed end facing up, about 2 to 4 inches deep and 4 to 8 inches apart. Autumn-planted garlic is prone to frost heave.

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A small planting of garlic can supply an entire year’s supply for most households. Garlic is a species in the onion genus — Allium, and is closely related to onions, shallots, leeks and cloves.

One of my favorite moments of the vegetable gardening year is when my wife Suzanne and I go out in October to plant the next year’s garlic crop. Garlic Planting Tips (Tips from the UMASS Center for ...

Growing garlic at home is easy, and now is the time to start planting. Instead of planting seeds, you plant individual cloves. Garlic produces a bulb-like structure called a head.