Get the best flavor and longest storage life from your homegrown garlic with proper harvesting, curing and storage. Then fill that space with a quick-maturing vegetable for a tasty fall harvest.

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 ...

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Get the best flavor and longest storage life from your homegrown garlic with proper harvesting, curing and storage. Then fill that space with a quick-maturing vegetable for a tasty fall harvest.

Garlic cloves take 250-270 days to mature into a large bulb. The biggest and best-tasting garlic is planted in the fall, though it can be planted in spring. Softneck garlic varieties do best in mild ...

Garlic is an easy crop that will grow anywhere in the U.S., when planted the right way at the right time. For the best, biggest garlic, plant in autumn during the window of time ideal for your USDA ...

Fall-planted garlic grows at the Iowa State University Student Organic Farm north of Ames. Garlic may not be the first crop that comes to mind when thinking of Iowa, but many varieties do very well in ...

Grow garlic indoors for a quick crop of tasty greens, and possibly some cloves. Garlic (Allium sativum) is usually grown outdoors for its edible bulbs and greens. However, with some skill, you can ...