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  • From: Jerry and Marienne <kreitlow AT cmgate.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Garlic Muclhing
  • Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:44:35 -0500

Allan wrote:

I'm wondering if it's a waste of time to mulch garlic with big bale
mulch hay. Works good on spuds, but with its solid stems I don't know
that it would insulate well enough for over wintering garlic.

I've been mulling over the whole mulching for freeze protection/ heaving thing for a year or so. We actually had some cloves fall on the ground beside our mulch last year - and they grew. Not big, mind you, but they did germinate.

I'll still mulch because I hate weeding.

Sean wrote:

To be honest, the only time I had any significant issues with garlic
emergence, was from over applied mulch.

Agreed. And I've found this to be specific to particular varieties. Our porcelains (Music and Armenian) have no trouble pushing right through 6-8" of chopped corn stalk, which can get very heavy. The rocambole we grow, German Red, had trouble with that much, and we had to pull a bit off. The softneck, Italian Red, didn't care for heavy mulch at all. So, now I am selectively varying the depths of the mulch.

Lucy wrote:


For the past 5 years we have use agripro 30 or agripro 50

I LOVE asking the "dumb question"! What are these things?

Jerry Ford
Howard Lake, MN
zone 3/4




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