5 things to do in the garden this week:

Plant elephant garlic and you will be gifted with corms that grow off the mother bulb. Yes, although elephant garlic presents as a gigantic bulb made up of cloves, it produces many corms, which, when planted out, grow into more garlic. Elephant garlic is a cousin to ordinary garlic, but it more closely related to leeks and has a flavor similar to them, without the pungency of regular garlic. Fall is the classic season for planting garlic of all kinds. A banana, another healthy edible, actually grows from a corm as well. Although a banana plant also has underground rhizomes that allow it to spread and survive from one year to the next, these rhizomes produce corms from which banana shoots and fruit develop.

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