Elephant garlic is not true garlic and instead belongs to the garden leek family. The broad, flat leaves grow above the large garlic-like bulb, filled with flavoursome, "mammoth"-sized cloves. Growing ...

Learn how to grow and care for garlic, an allium that thrives in well-drained soil in garden beds or containers and is a versatile culinary staple.

The softball-sized bulbs of elephant garlic come as a surprise to those who don’t know about this leek relative. Instead of growing a solid bulb like a leek, the plants form a bulb that looks like ...

A. Elephant garlic (Allium ampeloprasum) looks like a giant garlic clove but, in fact, is not a true garlic but more closely related to a leek. The title refers to the size of the clove. It is a hardy ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: Plant elephant garlic and you will be gifted with corms that grow off the mother bulb. Yes, although elephant garlic presents as a gigantic bulb made up of ...

As I’ve written in the past, our gardens are a combination of food production and science projects. Sometimes I’ll plant a variety of something just to see what happens, and sometimes nothing happens.

I spent as much time in our garden as I could this season. Recovery from surgery kept me from roaming around out there as much as I normally would, but most of the goodies didn’t go to waste because I ...

A trailer full of just-pulled elephant garlic waits to be taken to the sheds at Elephant Garlic World in Aumsville, Ore. AUMSVILLE, Ore. — Ken Haley has a short answer to the question of why he chose ...

CORVALLIS – The end of gardening season is approaching but don’t put away your hoe and gardening gloves just yet. The best time to plant garlic is now through November. Garlic roots develop in the ...

It's the stuff of a garlic lover's dreams - and a vampire's nightmares. Bulbs of garlic the size of a grapefruit are about to go on sale at supermarkets. The supersize version is said to have ...