When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images Garlic scapes are one of those little surprises in the garden that many ...

Our garlic is entering into a new stage of growth. This is the time of year when hard neck garlic, also called stiff neck, sends up flower stalk-like structures called garlic scapes. Each garlic plant ...

Q: I like to grow garlic. I read that you should cut off the scapes when they start forming in late summer so I always do that, but this year I missed several. They formed a thing that looks like a ...

Some of the best garden discoveries are made by accident. Last fall a friend gave my husband and me some family heirloom garlic. Against the standard advice, he hadn't removed the flower stems, known ...

Garlic is a bulb with joined segments (called cloves) that make up a head. Each clove is actually a miniature bulb that stores energy to sprout and create a new plant. Garlic is almost always planted ...

As we start to bring in the harvest from our gardens, we begin looking forward to next season. We start cleaning off garden space, working up the ground and preparing to plant. One of the most popular ...

“Gardening is often done mostly by trial and error, and sometimes attempting something new can be incredibly rewarding.” With these words, Kristin Graves won my heart. They remind me of some other ...

Garlic produces well in Nebraska when planted in October or early spring, using individual bulb cloves or the small bulbils found on top-setting types. Fall or early spring planting is required ...

If you planted garlic in your garden last fall and have pretty much ignored the plants for the last several months, it’s time to start paying attention to them again. Garlic is a fairly trouble-free ...

In 1994, Norweigan scientists sought to determine whether garlic did indeed repel vampires. Since no vampires offered to participate in the study, they used leeches instead. After all, both consume ...