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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Overwintering root crops
  • Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:09:34 -0500


>Question:
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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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In Pennsylvania's Northern Tier, northeastern USA.
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