Is it a weed or a garden plant? Garlic chives are among those plants — paulownia tree, Jerusalem artichoke, mint and anise hyssop are others — that can parade under either guise. Garlic chives come ...

My garlic is "scaping," not "escaping!" Scapes are the unopened flower heads of hard neck garlic, which many folks used to discard so that the energy of the plant isn't wasted in the flower. Now chefs ...

A head of garlic, like tulips or daffodils, is a bulb you can plant in the fall that will pay dividends in spring.

I noticed onion flowers and garlic flowers in my garden last summer. What caused this, and, in the future, should I remove the flowering stems or let them bloom? Onions are biennial, which means they ...

After garlic scape season is over, garlic flowers are ready, full of garlic seeds. You don't usually see these at the greenmarkets unless you ask a kind farmer to bring them in for you, but if you do, ...

HUDSON, Ohio -- On a steamy June evening at Thaxton’s Organic Garlic in Hudson, scape season was in the air. Literally. The delicious aroma wafted from the fields and from the refrigerator Fred ...

Planting supermarket garlic may produce a crop, but ideally, use the hefty bulbs sold for planting, as the larger cloves will give a better crop more reliably. Autumn-planted garlic usually matures in ...

Individual cloves that are split from golfball-sized bulbs are ideally planted in Pennsylvania in mid to late October.

Cavatelli with sausage and zucchini flowers is a total gem from Southern Italy—where the sun's always shining. Seriously good ...