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  • From: "Elaine Granata" <elainegranata AT peoplepc.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] garlic
  • Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:38:19 -0700

Having just finished reading "Growing Great Garlic", and from my other
reading, you don't want them to sprout, just develop a healthy root system
before heavy ground freezing. It's ok if it sprouts, but that's not
desirable, but it's not the end of the world, either -- if there are good
roots the plant will replace any fall sprouts with new ones in the spring.

Elaine
zone 5
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost AT lobo.net>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] garlic


>
> So here's a question for those more experienced with garlic. Does it need
> to sprout above ground before serious winter sets in? I got mine in the
> ground in Sept but we've had several freezes and no sign of green yet.
>
> paul tradingpost AT lobo.net
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 11/12/2006 at 1:56 PM sora AT coldreams.com wrote:
>
> >>
> >> We're floating in the same boat...it was way too dry at the normal
> >planting time...waited for the rains and got snow instead...then it
> >rained and the ground is ok buttttt...the freeze could come at any
> >moment. We're going to try to get it all in tomorrow but the forcast is
> >calling for 20s-30s at night
> >sigh...took years to build up the seed crop...don't want to lose it...
> >Hoping mulch will help.....
> >
> >
> >>>Paul: The cloves need about 4 weeks to form roots before the ground
> >>> freezes,
> >>>so you can compute planting time by backing up from freeze time. I
just
> >>> got
> >>>mine in because it finally stopped raining and snowing long enough for
> >>> the
> >>>soil to dry out enough to plant. It sure is the pits when it's too
wet.
> >>>Good luck.
> >>
> >> Hopefully, mulching would delay the freeze?
> >>
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