Hopefully some readers were gifted with rain during the past week! This isn’t the case for most of us (me included), who are dragging garden hoses around the property daily to provide much needed ...

One of my last gardening projects each fall is to plant garlic. There is something about breaking the heads apart and setting each clove in the ground that is very satisfying. I look at it as a ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Your garlic bed is quiet. Too quiet. You planted those cloves with care, tucked them into the soil, waited patiently... and nothing happened. No green shoots. No signs of life. Just dirt staring back ...