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We know it’s a bummer to bid farewell to a successful summer-food season, but a little planning might help extend your current herbal harvest throughout the year!
With a few simple propagation techniques, you can
grow new herbs from your existing ones, allowing you to bring some of summer’s flavor inside to overwinter until next year. This easy project is also a great way to help friends start their own culinary beds or to share different plants with neighbors. Give it a try and see what grows – you really have nothing to lose – and only more great homegrown flavors to gain! |
 Summer’s end may be around the corner, but the vegetable garden is just getting started! Crisp, sweet lettuce, tender peas and hearty baby carrots are just a few of the many cool-season tasty treats most home gardeners can grow in autumn beds. With a little planning and some creativity, you can enjoy fresh homegrown veggies and a beautiful kitchen garden deep into the new season. Learn the steps to
planning a fall food garden of your own, and let cooler temperatures bring forth an extended season of fresh ingredients.
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Garlic |
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Botanical Plant Name:
Allium sativum
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What’s a pirate’s favorite plant in the garden? G ARRRlic! Grown for its essential culinary uses,
garlic offers a distinctive, pungent flavor in cuisines worldwide. This hardy bulbous perennial produces a fan of narrow, tapered, gray-green, tubular leaves in spring followed by tall flower-topped stems in summer. The ball-shaped cluster of small, white blooms gives way to an edible bulb consisting of tightly packed cloves in fall. Grow garlic in full sun with average, well-drained soil. Allow the bulbs to cure in a cool, dry, dark place until the skin is dry and papery. |
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