[Market-farming] planting garlic

Marcy mlynn at pcisys.net
Wed Sep 17 00:31:13 EDT 2008


I'm thinking about increasing our garlic (and onion) plantings and just ran
across this study on winter mulch and irrigation methods last week in my
research:

http://www.specialtycrops.colostate.edu/scp_exp_demo/garlic_2003_wntr_mulch.
htm 

A couple key points:

*       As long as the garlic is adequately watered, any of the mulches
tried were better than bare soil. 

*       Regardless of irrigation treatment, bare ground (no mulch) produced
the fewest large bulbs and the most small bulbs. This difference was
statistically significant for all irrigation treatments.

Marcy

SE Colorado, zone 5

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