[Market-farming] mulching garlic
Road's End Farm
organic87 at frontiernet.net
Mon Nov 17 21:39:29 EST 2008
On Nov 17, 2008, at 8:40 PM, Richard Robinson wrote:
> 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
Straw mulch (on about 1600 row feet, in my case). If no mulch is used,
at this location repeated freeze-thaw cycles will heave the cloves out
of the ground over the winter.
I expect large scale growers chop and spread the straw with machinery;
I expect the machinery used to do this over large-scale strawberries
would work fine for garlic. I spread it by hand.
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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