Ask a master gardener: It’s time to plant garlic

Fresh garlic from your garden is hard to beat, and now is the time to get it started for next year. Let’s look at a few tips for a successful garlic crop using science and some practical gardening knowledge.

Learn how to grow great garlic

Garlic grows well in many different soils and climates, but only varieties that are hardy and adapted to the Northeast will perform well here.

How to prevent loss of stored garlic

When you reach into your paper bag of carefully stored garlic and pull out a bulb to see a sprout emerging from the top… What do you do?

Gardening: It’s time to plant garlic

Here in Vermont, garlic is best planted in fall because of its need for a dormant period of two months below 40 Fahrenheit degrees.