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- From: "Shoemaker, William H" <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Garlic
- Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:29:09 +0000
Sorry Kathryn, I should've elaborated. Our focus was on winter protection and possible improvements in bulb size. We didn't see that. We eliminated weed control as a treatment to keep the study simple and focused. Hand-weeding essentially kept pace in the bare ground treatment with the straw-mulched treatments. We had the cloves planted fairly deep, about 4", and the planting went in about the second week of October. Both treatments performed well so we concluded (with room for more research) that the mulch had limited impact on bulb size at harvest. This could certainly be investigated in other places with different results.
Bill William H. Shoemaker University of Illinois, Crop Sciences St Charles Horticulture Research Center 535 Randall Road, St Charles, IL 60174 630-584-7254, wshoemak AT illinois.edu From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] on behalf of KAKerby AT aol.com [KAKerby AT aol.com]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 11:18 AM To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Garlic I was always under the impression that mulch helped minimize frost-heave for fall plantings, and minimized weed competition during the growing season. In your study, were those concerns not really an issue? Here, we don't have a major issue with frost
heave but we do have issues with weeds totally smothering the garlic if we don't mulch. So I was surprised your findings didn't see any benefit. Care to elaborate?
Kathryn Kerby frogchorusfarm.com
Snohomish, WA
Ruminations - essays on the farming life at frogchorusfarm.com/weblog.html
In a message dated 11/28/2011 9:16:04 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, wshoemak AT illinois.edu writes:
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic,
Todd Lister, 11/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic,
Road's End Farm, 11/28/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic, Shoemaker, William H, 11/28/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic, Todd Lister, 11/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic,
Road's End Farm, 11/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic,
Todd Lister, 11/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic,
sunmoonriver, 11/26/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic, Road's End Farm, 11/26/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic, Shoemaker, William H, 11/28/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Garlic,
Shoemaker, William H, 11/28/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic, Road's End Farm, 11/28/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic, Etienne Goyer, 11/28/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Garlic, Wiediger, Alison, 11/28/2011
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