[Market-farming] planting garlic

Pat Meadows pat at meadows.pair.com
Tue Sep 16 09:56:36 EDT 2008


On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:05:36 -0400, you wrote:


>
>I always mulch it up here in New York (straw mulch). If I don't, 
>repeated freeze and thaw cycles can heave the cloves right out of the 
>ground. You can push them back in again and they'll grow, but it 
>definitely sets them back. -- This, I expect, does vary a good bit 
>depending on where you are. Either reliable snow cover all winter, or 
>significantly warmer winters, might well remove the necessity for straw 
>(though I think it does have additional benefits through the season).

We're in the mountains in northern Pennsylvania and we do this also, for
the same reason - we mulch it to at least 6".

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
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