[Market-farming] planting garlic

Shawnee Flowerfarmer farmingflowers at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 17 22:43:55 EDT 2008


Thanks for passing on this information.  Another advantage  with a straw mulch is the addition of organic matter to the soil.  But any mulch is better than no mulch.  The planet hates bare soil; weeds-pioneer species- are the bandage applied to the wound.  Shawnee, zone 5, this week 

From: mlynn at pcisys.netTo: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.orgDate: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:31:13 -0600Subject: Re: [Market-farming] planting garlic




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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