onions garlic and alliums Growing Guides

Onions, Garlic & Alliums Growing Guides

Onions, garlic, shallots, leeks, chives, and other alliums are useful garden crops with distinct planting and harvesting requirements. Some are grown primarily for bulbs, while others are harvested for leaves, stems, or immature growth. Understanding the particular crop and variety can help gardeners plan planting dates and care more effectively.

The allium growing guides below focus on how to grow the individual onions, garlic, and related crops listed here. Use the guides to learn about planting, soil preparation, spacing, sunlight, watering, feeding, crop care, common problems, and harvesting. Whether you are growing bulbs for storage, green onions for fresh use, garlic for the kitchen, or another allium crop, these guides provide practical growing information to help you through the season.

Ailsa Craig onions	Ambition shallot	American Flag leek
Amish Paste garlic	Amish Rocambole garlic	Armenian garlic
Artichoke garlic	Asiatic garlic	Autumn Giant leek
Baby leeks	Banana shallot	Bandit leek
Basque garlic	Bermuda onion	Bleu de Solaise leek
Boiler onions	Bunching onion	California Early garlic
California Late garlic	Candy onions	Carentan leek
Chesnok Red garlic	Chets Italian Red garlic	Chinese chives
Chive blossoms	Chive greens	Chive sprouts
Chives	Cipollini onion	Conservator shallot
Creole garlic	Duganski garlic	Dutch Red shallot
Dutch yellow shallot	Early Italian Purple garlic	Edenrose garlic
Egyptian onion	Egyptian onion greens	Egyptian walking onion
Elephant garlic	Elephant garlic greens	Elephant garlic scapes
French Pink garlic	French Red shallot	French shallot
Garlic	Garlic chives	Garlic greens
Garlic scapes	Garlic shoots	Garlic sprouts
Georgian Crystal garlic	Georgian Fire garlic	German Extra Hardy garlic
German Porcelain garlic	German Red garlic	German White garlic
Germidour garlic	Giant Musselburgh leek	Green garlic
Green onion	Green shallots	Griselle shallot
Hardneck garlic	Hardneck garlic scapes	Inchelium Red garlic
Japanese bunching onion	Jolant leek	Khabar garlic
Killarney Red garlic	King Richard leek	Korean Purple garlic
Korean Purple Stripe garlic	Korean Red garlic	Lancelot leek
Leek	Leek greens	Leek leaves
Leek shoots	Leek sprouts	Leningrad garlic
Lincoln leek	Lorz Italian garlic	Maui onion
Megaton leek	Messidrome garlic	Metechi garlic
Moroccan Red garlic	Multiplier onion	Music garlic
Musselburgh leek	New York White garlic	Nodding onion
Nootka Rose garlic	Onion	Onion greens
Onion scapes	Onion shoots	Onion sprouts
Pancho leek	Perennial leek	Perennial onion
Persian Star garlic	Pickling onions	Polish Jenn garlic
Polish White garlic	Porcelain garlic	Printanor garlic
Purple Glazer garlic	Purple Stripe garlic	Red Burgundy onions
Red Candy Apple onions	Red onion	Red Rezan garlic
Red Toch garlic	Red Torpedo onions	Redwing onions
Rocambole garlic	Romanian Red garlic	Roscoff onions
Rose de Lautrec garlic	Russian Red garlic	Scallion
Scallion greens	Shallot	Shallot greens
Siberian garlic	Sicilian Silver garlic	Silver Rose garlic
Silver White garlic	Silverskin garlic	Softneck garlic
Southport Red Globe onions	Southport White Globe onions	Southport Yellow Globe onions
Spanish onion	Spanish Roja garlic	Spring garlic
Spring onion	Super Sweet onions	Sweet onion
Sweet Spanish onions	Tadorna leek	Texas Sweet onion
Thai Fire garlic	Thai Purple garlic	Thermidrome garlic
Titan leek	Torpedo onion	Tree onion
Turban garlic	Ukrainian Red garlic	Varna leek
Vidalia onion	Walking onion	Walking onion greens
Walla Walla onion	Welsh onion	Welsh onion greens
Wethersfield Red onions	White Granex onions	White onion
Wild chives	Wild garlic	Wild garlic mustard
Wild leek	Wild onion	Yellow Granex onions
Yellow Moon shallot	Yellow onion	Yellow Sweet Spanish onions
Young garlic	Young leeks	Young onions
Young shallots	Zebrune shallot

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