[Market-farming] mulching garlic

Shawnee Flowerfarmer farmingflowers at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 17 21:20:39 EST 2008


I plant the sets by Halloween or the first week of November, mulch heavily with straw which is mainly 
for spring weed  and moisture control.
I have also grown garlic without mulch-planted the same way/time,  an acre plot prepared by stale bed cultivation, but the weeds
are still awful to deal with in an allium patch. I do mostly plant the hardneck varieties.  No
problems with winter hardiness-German Extra Hardy red- mulched or not.   Some seasons the foliage
barely tops the mulch in the fall; sometimes not.  In spring, I topdress with a pelleted
chicken manure and leave it alone-except for adding more mulch/irrigation if needed-until harvest. 
My best profit crop with three harvests: every other plant pulled
for garlic scallions in spring, then the scapes, then the heads.
Shawnee, zone 5, Northern Illinois, still cutting baby kale> From: rrobinson at nasw.org> To: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:40:08 -0500> Subject: [Market-farming] mulching garlic> > My garlic is all mulched with bagged leaves, but I wonder how others do this, especially those of you who grow a hundred feet or more of row. And do large-scale commercial garlic farmers mulch, or do they grow where the ground never freezes? > > Richard, curious in the zone 5/6 rural suburbs of Boston> > --> Richard Robinson> http://www.nasw.org/users/rrobinson/> > _______________________________________________> Market-farming mailing list> Market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming> 
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