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

Garlic chives grow well in full-sun locations. The blossoms appear in North Texas just before Labor Day. The white hemispherical flower heads appear on 2- to 3-foot-high stalks and are 3 inches ...

Plant each clove root-end down and pointy-end up, just deep enough to cover and 4-6 inches apart (in heavier soil, bulbs grow bigger 6 inches apart). Garlic Plant Care ...

The world record for the heaviest garlic bulb is held by Robert Kirkpatrick of Eureka, California, when his bulb weighed in at 1.19 kg in 1985. While we’re not guaranteeing you’ll reach record levels ...

Monty explained he likes to grow three different types of garlic: elephant garlic, softneck, and hardneck. The horticulturist said he grew elephant garlic last year and was happy with the results ...

I grow very few main-crop onions these days — they’re cheap to buy and swallow space — but I grow a few, as well as a little garlic. Sown ahead of winter proper, I’ll lift them all early next summer.

How to grow garlic in the UK. The first thing you need to do is to decide what cloves to plant. ... Elephant garlic has a mild flavour and has a single-clove bulb.

Elephant garlic is a member of the onion family but not a true garlic. Hardnecks have a stiff central stalk and produce four to 12 cloves within a bulb; the cloves tend to have a more intense flavor.

Elephant garlic flowers have a light honey smell.(Dougal Munro) ... Usually Mr Munro sells his garlic as seed stock to other growers and as a wholesale product to restaurateurs.

Garlic may sprout in 4 to 6 weeks, but if it does remember that it won’t grow much during the winter months. Garlic will develop strong root systems in the winter while top growth resumes in spring.