A four-season crop, leeks are a fine-flavored addition to soups, scrambles and more. (For details on growing many other vegetables and fruits, visit our Crop at a Glancecollection page.) Easy to grow ...

You can’t cook a savory meal without using at least one of these alliums — onions, garlic, shallots, leeks or chives — but many of us shy away from growing them in our gardens. We shouldn’t, says ...

Unlike onions, leeks grow independently of day-length and will stand in your garden at temperatures colder than many other vegetables can handle, getting bigger until you harvest them. A flexible ...

Even during the coldest days of the year, I love being able to go out to my garden and grab some basic vegetables and herbs. It’s how I plan what to grow over winter: carrots, celery, onions, and ...

I don’t recall you ever mentioning leeks in your columns. I’m starting them now, along with Brussels sprouts — those are the two slowest-growing vegetables in our garden. In addition to being very ...

Like humans who have similar traits to our relatives, so does the plant genus, Allium, part of the Amaryllidaceae family. The Allium genus is made up of edibles (onion, garlic, leeks, chives) and ...

Here are some tips that apply to the entire Allium family, which also includes onions, garlic, shallots, and chives. Chris D. asks: What is the secret to growing leeks? I am planning on setting on ...

Question: My fall planted leeks all bolted before they got big enough to harvest. How can I prevent this from happening again? Answer: Leeks are large, cold-tolerant cousins to the onions. Ideally, ...

If you can overlook the inevitable bad breath, there are many reasons to fill your gardens with alliums — onions, garlic, shallots and leeks. Master Gardener Janet Miller, who manages the Walnut Creek ...

Extend the growing season and harvest fresh vegetables in winter with these cold-hardy crops. Tomatoes, melons, and cucumbers are the stars of summer veggie gardens, but they die back as soon as the ...

Time-lapse video of growing leek from a seed to harvest. A leek seed was sown into soil. It took a week for the seed to germinate, and another 100 days to reach the harvest-able size.

BOISE, Idaho — Do you like the savory flavor of onion and garlic in your food? Most people do, but did you know they are all part of the same plant family? They are known as alliums and they are east ...