Garlic is an unexpectedly easy crop to grow at home if you get the timing right. Let’s talk about when to harvest garlic—and what to look for before harvesting. Plus, I’ll show you how to cure your garlic for long-term storage. To grow the best garlic bulbs, you want rain early...
How to care for garlic Garlic needs little care. Water regularly in spring and early summer, but reduce this once you see the foliage turning yellow – this is a sign that the bulbs are reaching maturity. Weed between the plants to reduce the competition for water and nutrients. This is ...
requiring a long, cool growing season in zones 3 through 9. Most types take about 90 days to harvest once growth starts. Despite its size, it has quite a mild flavor, more similar to onion and shallots than traditional garlic. Bulbs and cloves are large (up to one pound each!), with...
We’ve found garlic to be pretty expensive at the grocery store these days. If you grow it yourself, you can store it for months! While garlic is generally harvested in summer, you actually plant it in fall, though seed garlic often sells out by late summer. So as we’re pulling our...
I think we can all agree: the world just wouldn’t be the same without garlic. This pungently potent vegetable is delightfully easy to grow. And as a natural pest and fungus deterrent,it makes a powerful companionto a variety of plants, from herbs and veggies to flowers and fruit trees....
These mites spend the winter inside stored cloves or in the ground with fall-planted garlic. True to their name, dry bulb mites feed exclusively on bulbs: garlic,tulip, onion, and lily, to be exact. They live between the layers of a garlic clove or inside the leaves and feast from with...
Garlic is a cool-weather perennial plant commonly planted in the cool of autumn or early spring. Garlic–which is sometimes classified as an herb–is grown from cloves selected from medium to large bulbs, called heads, harvested the season before. You can plant cloves from garlic heads purchase...
You carefullyplanted your garlic last fall. You cared for it all spring: watching its water, fertilizing a few times, weeding the patch well. Sometime around July you harvested a bundle of gorgeous bulbs and dutifully hung or laid them somewhere to cure before long term storage…Wait, you ...
Carrots can be harvested any time after they are large enough to use. Carrot seed saving Carrots are biennials; they will flower in their second season of growth. Leave a few plants in the garden until the second season to produce seeds. Allow plants to die and dry in place then seeds ...
As well as being easy to grow, garlic is easy to store after you’ve harvested it, and it’s so versatile to use in cooking that growing it in your garden is a simple decision, even if you're a beginning gardener. Subscribe toThe Acorn, Oak Hill Homestead's weekly-ish newsletter and...