Garlic

If you’ve ever browsed a seed catalog in August or stopped at a farmers market stall with a dozen garlic braids hanging overhead, you’ve probably encountered both hardneck and softneck garlic without realizing it.  Hardneck vs. softneck garlic: They look similar, and they both taste like garlic, but the differences between them matter more than …

Your garlic harvest is done. The bed is clear. And now you’re staring at freshly turned soil, wondering what to do with it next. Did you know that garlic leaves your garden in better shape than it found it? The lingering allicin in the soil acts as a mild natural pest deterrent, and garlic’s deep …

Growing garlic is a long game. You plant it in the fall, wait out the winter, and spend most of spring watching it slowly grow taller.  And then, just when it seems like nothing much is happening, a narrow window opens, and if you miss it, months of effort produce bulbs that don’t store well. …

Growing your own garlic is one of the most rewarding things you can do in a kitchen garden. It takes up almost no space, needs minimal attention once it’s in the ground, and produces something you’ll actually use every single week.  The catch is that most of the work happens in the fall, months before …