[Market-farming] Overwintering root crops
Pat Meadows
pat at meadows.pair.com
Mon Jan 5 10:09:34 EST 2009
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>Have any of you ever left root crops over winter ?
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>Garlic maybe, onions ?
We are in the Appalachian Mountains in Pennsylvania's Northern Tier. We
have Zone 4 low temperatures almost every winter.
We certainly have temperatures substantially below zero F every winter;
generally down near 20 below at least once per winter or even lower.
We plant our garlic in October and mulch it with a foot of straw. It grows
beautifully in the spring and we harvest it in summer; usually in mid-July.
Pat
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