Sometimes gardening feels like an endless game of checking your plants' leaves and asking, "Is this spot harmless or not?" When it comes to growing garlic (Allium sativum), tiny white, yellow, or ...

Do not plant garlic in insufficient sun, poorly draining soil, or next to legume crops. Avoid growing garlic in containers less than 6 to 8 inches deep. Skip areas with very alkaline soils and where ...

Here’s another healthy herb for the Mediterranean potted kitchen garden. Garlic, Allium sativum, is another plant that was brought to this continent by the early colonists, along with rosemary, basil, ...

Check out local nurseries for a good selection of spring-flowering bulbs and cool-season vegetable starts. Sow seeds of carrots, beets and Asian greens this month while the soil is still warm.

An easy way to spice up your vegetable garden is to plant onions and garlic. They are not difficult to grow. You can plant onions and leeks from now until January for harvest from May through July, ...

As we enter the middle of fall, it’s time to plant garlic! Garlic is a member of the allium family along with onions, shallots, and leeks, and is botanically considered a bulb. It is covered in an ...

Since we’ve been talking about getting our fall garden crops in the ground, there’s one crop we can plant now that will overwinter in the soil to give us a harvest next year, and it’s easy to grow.

Q. Why does my fig tree have black spots on the leaves, and can I grow figs in pots? Do they like a lot of sun? Do tomato plants like a lot of sun? What’s a good fertilizer and can they be grown in ...

Well, Halloween is over. There are candy wrappers still littering my yard. At least no damage was done to the worse-for-wear jack o’ lantern on the step. Stories of ghosts and vampires are done for ...

Rusts spots overtake the green leaves of a garlic plant - Richie Seddon/Shutterstock Sometimes gardening feels like an endless game of checking your plants' leaves and asking, "Is this spot harmless ...