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 ...

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, ...

I have been so disappointed with my garlic crop over the past few years. All it has been producing is rust! I want to hang large braided strings of garlic in my kitchen and on the odd occasion around ...

Is it good or bad to water the leaves of plants? MILLIE: I don’t believe the furphy that watering plants on a hot day will magnify the sun and burn the leaves, but watering the leaves can encourage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Q. I was given two plants, each in a pot 4 1/2 inches deep and 6 inches in diameter. One plant is Allium tuberosum, or garlic chives. The other is Tulbaghia violacea, or society garlic. Are these ...