[Market-farming] mulching garlic

Barbara Dieckman barbara.dieckman at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 21:58:04 EST 2008


I actually am interested in your using leaves as they are plentiful for me.
I know most of the market farmers that grow garlic here use straw, but it is
$$ and the leaves are already here. Do you have good luck with the leaves
and how much do you put on?

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Richard Robinson <rrobinson at nasw.org>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
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