You think you have everything you need to know to grow your own garlic down pat. Then, all of a sudden, long, bulbous-ended flower stalks start exploding from the plants in your garlic patch.

This means their flower embryos have been killed ... well-drained site is essential for growing good crops of onion and garlic. It's possible to grow good onions on heavy soil, but the drainage ...

Garlic leaves sprinkled among your strawberry plants can deter and repel greenfly, whitefly and aphids - because of the natural chemicals in garlic which these pests can’t stand. Taking it one ...

Snails and slugs can destroy gardens in spring by eating flowers or spreading fungal ... Hankinson advises households to spray garlic all over their plants to stop slugs and snails invading ...