Many gardeners plant garlic in early spring and still reap decent crops. Gardening books and magazine articles, however, direct you to plant now. You can save this article by registering for free here ...

Fall is the prime time for planting garlic to grow your own large, plump cloves. Getting garlic in the ground before it freezes yields the best results. If you miss your fall planting window, you can ...

Companion planting is a common practice, especially in edible gardening, but this pairing of vegetables with mismatched seasons might surprise you.

The vegetable I'm most likely to forget to plant each year is garlic (stinking rose). Although it's planted at the end of the season along with lettuce, endive and radish, garlic isn't harvested with ...

A reader writes: Is it too late to plant garlic, and is it all right to plant in the same place in consecutive years? You are not alone. Home gardeners I’ve spoken with have been lamenting over ...

Garlic cloves take 250-270 days to mature into a large bulb. The biggest and best-tasting garlic is planted in the fall, though it can be planted in spring. Softneck garlic varieties do best in mild ...

Knowing the right time to plant garlic is key to a successful harvest. While this root crop depends on cooler temperatures to grow and thrive, the ideal planting time will depend on your gardening ...

Along with sunlight and a fertile planting bed, spring garlic needs consistent moisture over the growing season. Lack of consistent moisture will result in stunted bulbs, writes master gardener ...

Q: We were lucky enough to receive home grown garlic as a gift. It’s wonderful. So much so that we’d like to grow our own. Which leads to this question: Is it too late to plant garlic now? SW: It is a ...

Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. A: Alberta Agriculture and ...

Planting supermarket garlic may produce a crop, but ideally, use the hefty bulbs sold for planting, as the larger cloves will ...