Garlic is one of the most rewarding crops to grow at home. It requires very little maintenance, thrives in a wide range of ...

As I’ve written in the past, our gardens are a combination of food production and science projects. Sometimes I’ll plant a variety of something just to see what happens, and sometimes n… ...

AUMSVILLE, Ore. — Ken Haley has a short answer to the question of why he chose growing fist-sized bulbs of elephant garlic instead of the much-smaller purple garlic. TrendingWSU veterinary […] ...

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 ...

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.

John Schmitz/Capital Press Turner, Ore., farmer Jayne Miller shows some of the smaller of the rare garlic bulbs she discovered on her farm. The bulbs are much larger than elephant garlic, and ...

Store the elephant garlic in a dry place with temperatures of 40 to 50 degrees F. Elephant garlic is much larger, milder, less “garlicky” and slightly sweet, compared to regular garlic.

Garlic is a big deal in North Plains. It's so big, in fact, that it gets an elephant-sized festival all to itself. This year will mark the 18 th that North Plains celebrates the crop at its annual ...

For 25 years, garlic lovers from near and far have flocked to North Plains, Oregon, for the annual Elephant Garlic Festival.The event was originally a community fish fry in the mid-1990s.

Space elephant garlic cloves about 6 inches apart. Garlic can be lightly mulched to improve soil structure and reduce weeds. A single 10-foot row should yield about five pounds of the fragrant bulbs.

This is a plate of roasted elephant garlic — enormous, bulging bulbs of garlic, roughly the size and shape of small, decorative pears, roasted just long enough to be soft and pliable.