Garlic Ideas, Tips & Guides

Jason Donnelly

Gardeners just getting into garlic have some decisions to make: there are dozens of different varieties, and choosing which one to grow can be difficult. But it’s hard to go wrong. Experimenting with various varieties can lead to a new appreciation of a crop you already love.

Homemade tonics do wonders for plant health. While there are many methods for caring for orchids, some gardeners use kitchen hacks like garlic water. This leverages garlic’s antibacterial and antifungal properties to promote healthy growth and blooms.

In Hannah Muller’s debut book, Designing With Dried Flowers ($22.31; Penguin Random House), she shares expert advice straight from the fields on how to create beautiful, everlasting works of art for any season and occasion. It’s packed with gorgeous photography, handfuls of tips, flower growing and harvesting suggestions, plus inspiring dried flower crafts that go well beyond vase arrangements.

Native to the Western Mediterranean, three-cornered leek is a bulbous perennial with white spring flowers. It’s also known as stinking onion, for reasons which become obvious when close by. In other countries, it’s known as onion grass or onion weed. Part of the allium family, it’s related to edible and ornamental onions as well as cultivated and wild garlic. However, since its introduction to the UK in the mid-18th century, three-corned leek has spread to become an undesirable invasive plant, forming dense colonies and crowding out native plants. It’s an offence to plant or dispose of it in the wild.

Want to savor fresh garlic greens in soups, stir-fries, omelets, and salads all year round? This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to grow garlic greens right in your home without having a garden.

Growing garlic is simpler than you probably imagine. The outcomes are usually satisfying and the whole process takes little time and effort. The main conditions garlic requires are sufficient sunshine, well-drained soil, proper watering, and regular weed removal.

Garlic is one of my favorite vegetables to grow. I love that I get two harvests from the bulbs I plant in the fall. The first harvest, because I plant hardneck garlic, is the long, loopy garlic scape. Then a few weeks later, I pull the garlic bulbs to dry and store through the fall and winter. In this article, I’m going to share tips on trimming the scapes, as well as when to harvest garlic. I usually spread my garlic crop out over a couple of my raised beds. If I still need space, I’ll pop a few extra here and there i

If you’re bothered by mosquitoes in your space, it’s time to combat them by growing a mix of repellent plants that not only beautify your surroundings but also keep mosquitoes at bay.

Rooting hormone is a substance used for stimulating root growth in plant cuttings. To find easily available natural substances that serve as alternatives, we’ve compiled a list for you!

Q: My garden is suffering very badly from snail and slug damage this spring after all the wet weather. Are there any plants that they don’t like to eat that you could recommend?

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Home-grown garlic takes up little space and requires hardly any effort to get a good crop. It’s an easy crop to grow, spouting from a garlic bulb separated into cloves, which you plant individually. Certified, disease-free garlic bulbs are sold at garden centres or online.

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How to Grow and Harvest Garlic Scapes

What if you have the best of both worlds – a classy foliage plant that you can also add to your platter! Sounds delicious? Keep reading!

The fall is the perfect time to plant garlic in your garden. Compared to spring-planted garlic, fall garlic produces larger bulbs, matures earlier, and often has fewer disease problems. Additionally, certain types of garlic, mainly hard-neck types like Rocambole, will not mature in time from spring planting.

Especially at this time of year the only time I only get to do anything in my garden is at the weekend. This is because when I finish work at 4pm it’s nearly dark and by the time I get home then it is completely dark and I can’t do anything outside apart from tucking the chicken in for the night. I do try and do a little bit before I go to work, but I’m very limited on time.

Another Sunday, another day in the garden, what more could I want. As usual when I came home from ringing I went out into the garden to check on everything in the greenhouses and gave them a little water. I need to do more pricking out and tidying in the greenhouses, but the outside needs my attention first. The Easter weekend I am planning on spending as much of it as possible in the garden so hopefully I will be able to get everything up to date then. I decided I would work Good Friday, but have the Monday off, the perks of being self employed you can decide. Mark is away from Friday to late Sunday, and Easter is very low key for us at home, so we’ll have a special meal on the Monday when we’re all together again.

Adam Frost is always happiest in his veg garden, enjoying the thrill of harvesting his own fresh homegrown veg. But what he loves even more is cooking this homegrown bounty – creating delicious meals with produce taken straight from plot to plate. In this podcast series he talks to Cassie Best, food director of BBC Good Food magazine, for inspirational recipes to help him and you make the most of your homegrown vegetables.

Black Vegetables are often overlooked in the traditional garden palette. They have a unique color due to the anthocyanins, a powerful antioxidant that is known to have numerous health benefits.

Growing these Cold Hardy Vegetables in your garden will ensure you enjoy a fresh harvest in the midst of the chill, right from your backyard!

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These Flowers that Repel Mosquitoes not only enhance the aesthetic appeal of your garden but also serve as a natural defense against these pesky insects!

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If you have always wanted to know about the names of Zucchini in Different Languages, then this informative list has all the details!

Aphids, those tiny, pesky insects that love to munch on the leaves and stems of indoor plants, can be a real nuisance. But fear not! Here we share some safe and easy remedies on How to Get Rid of Aphids on Indoor Plants for you to explore!

Aphids, those tiny, pesky insects that love to munch on the leaves and stems of indoor plants, can be a real nuisance. But fear not! Here we share some safe and easy remedies on How to Get Rid of Aphids on Indoor Plants for you to explore!

Garden pests are troublesome and often turn out of control if not treated on time. Here’s one simple trick for you to make your pest combat easier – Pour Water Over Crushed Garlic, then Spray it on Your Plants!

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Inspired by places and people they love, Jemima Jones and Lucy Carr-Ellison, founders of Tart London and Wild by Tart have partnered with Daylesford Organic to share their recipe for Pumpkin pappardelle.

Extracted from The Farm Table by Julius Roberts (Ebury Press, £27). Photography by Elena Heatherwick. Read our interview with Julius here.

Daylesford Organic share a cosy autumnal recipe for whole baked squash. Try baking a variety for added colours and textures and serve as they have done here on a big platter, drizzled with the flavourful butter.

Medicinal plants have been grown and foraged for centuries, and it is no new concept. But as a society, we seem to have become almost cynical and mistrusting of plants' medicinal qualities.

If you’re a gardener and love the taste of garlic, growing it at home can be a rewarding experience. In this article, we’ll guide you through the different Garlic Growing Stages in detail.