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If you’re looking to grow bigger, healthier garlic, it all starts with your soil. One of the easiest and most effective ways to improve soil health before planting garlic is by using cover crops. With the right approach, cover cropping can help you build fertility, reduce weeds, and set your garlic up for success. What…

🌱 Need to Delay Planting? We’ve Got You Covered! If your garden beds aren’t ready or life gets busy, don’t worry—your spring products can stay fresh with proper storage. While planting as soon as your order arrives is ideal, following the right storage tips will keep your spring garden items in excellent condition until you’re…

Flavor Year-Round: A Garlic Farmer’s Guide We are garlic farmers and have been preserving our garlic for over 20 years. Since organic heirloom garlic, with its wonderfully rare flavor, doesn’t always store long, we had to find ways to preserve our harvest. With these tried and true preservation methods, we have all the flavor we…

Keene Garlic’s Horseradish Crowns are hardy and easy to grow in any garden. A spicy and nutritious, low-maintenance perennial that will produce for years to come. Horseradish crowns are freshly dug, shipped dormant, and ready to plant. Available in units of 5 or 10 crowns. Basic Horseradish Growing Information Horseradish Crown Arrival How to Plant…

Shallots can be easy to grow. They have subtle onion flavor and widely used in the kitchen. They store well.

Not Sure What Size to Choose? Jumbo Size Jumbo bulbs are 2.25”+ in diameter, with most falling around 2.25″ and occasionally reaching 2.75″+. True “super jumbo” bulbs are rare. While we do grow some at that size, we typically reserve those for replanting on our own farm. If your goal is to start with the…

As much as we love growing garlic, we also love seeing our customers’ growing success! Through the years, we have received so many wonderful messages from our customers talking about how thrilled they are with the garlic they grew from our seed stock. If you grow our garlic, we would love to see your photos…

How to Grow Garlic In Wisconsin Tips & Tricks Keene Garlic is presenting at the PBS Madison Garden Expo February 11 and 12, 2022 on “How to Grow Garlic in Wisconsin – Tips and Tricks”.  We will be introducing Keene Garlic and all our offerings.  This spring we have certified organic onions, garlic, and shallots. …

At Keene Garlic, we continue to be fascinated by all of the unique varieties of garlic that are available. Over the years we have expanded our collection to consistently provide our customers with new and exciting garlic varieties to plant and eat. We offer everything from creamy and sweet varieties like Vietnamese Red to varieties…

General Potato Growing Information Soil Prep for Potato Planting Potato Seed Prep Potato Planting  ***If you want “Baby” potatoes, you can plant them in the 6”-8” range. Most other varieties do best around 12” apart. Some folks choose to plant Kennebecs a bit closer, at around 10” apart, so they don’t get too big.  **Optional: Potato…

Dreaming of spring is one of the only things getting us through this long Wisconsin winter. Our gardens may not be blooming yet, but this homemade garden focaccia bread sure is! On top of a soft and pillowy base, cherry tomatoes and garlic cloves open like petals, with long cilantro stalks for stems. Fresh herbs…

It’s getting cold outside, and you know what that means – it’s soup season! This Cheesy Broccoli Cauliflower Soup is full of simple, wholesome ingredients. It’s warm, cozy, and comforting. It’s cheesy. It also has loads of vegetables – but you don’t feel like you’re eating a healthy vegetable soup. The broccoli, cauliflower, potatoes, carrots,…

At Keene Garlic, we’re based in Wisconsin, where cold winters naturally provide the conditions garlic needs to thrive. However, through research and feedback from growers across the country, we’ve learned what works best in warmer regions so you can still achieve a successful harvest—even without a true winter. Although growing garlic in a warmer climate…