Get to know these seasonal onions, garlic, and aromatics better.

Is it a weed or a garden plant? Garlic chives are among those plants — paulownia tree, Jerusalem artichoke, mint and anise hyssop are others — that can parade under either guise. Garlic chives come ...

Organically cultivated garlic plantation in the vegetable garden - Yuriys/Getty Images If you're starting a home garden, growing your own garlic is an easy way to keep a pungent ingredient close at ...

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My garlic is "scaping," not "escaping!" Scapes are the unopened flower heads of hard neck garlic, which many folks used to discard so that the energy of the plant isn't wasted in the flower. Now chefs ...

A head of garlic, like tulips or daffodils, is a bulb you can plant in the fall, but it offers more than just beauty. You can harvest the flower stalk and the bulb as well. According to Emma Erler, ...

HUDSON, Ohio -- On a steamy June evening at Thaxton’s Organic Garlic in Hudson, scape season was in the air. Literally. The delicious aroma wafted from the fields and from the refrigerator Fred ...

You might be surprised that all this cold weather is perfect for planting garlic. Here's how to do it. When most of your garden is winding down , it’s time to start garlic. This hardy, flavorful bulb ...

I noticed onion flowers and garlic flowers in my garden last summer. What caused this, and, in the future, should I remove the flowering stems or let them bloom? Onions are biennial, which means they ...

Learn when to harvest garlic to get the biggest and tastiest garlic bulbs.

It’s bulb season. About this time of year, people punch holes in the ground and plop in bulbs that sleep all winter, shooting up in the spring. Tiny green blub shoots poking up from the dirt are one ...