Anyone Plant Garlic

[DFB]

Grow enough garlic to cook/serve with the squirrels and then you can move on to truffles

:laughing:

 

[forgeblast]

I was looking at growing the truffles in zone 5. You can get 2 different types of trees inoculated. I was planning on going the hazelnut route, but have been holding off since gas pipeline company's want to go right through the area where I want to plant.

 

[Brimfield]

I just ordered some Italian late garlic. No Italian blood but I eat garlic by the ton. Well may not be a ton but I use 3 cloves on a small pot roast.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

I check on the garlic I planted since it has been the coldest weather we have had in several years. It looks like some of it froze and is now mush but green tops.

Some may make it, only checked a couple of places. I may not have put enough mulch on it.

Of course, first year trying garlic so if it froze it is pretty much done for...correct?

 

[randy41]

i wouldn't give up on it yet. if the tops are green its still alive. i doubt that it has started bulbing up yet. how much mulch?

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Started with 1-2 inches of old straw. Heavy wind blew some off in places. This year I will grind up leaves and straw for mulch.

 

[randy41]

i used wood chips this year. the past 2 years i used pine straw. at least 4-6" thick. you should remulch where it blew off.

 

[charlz]

I can't imagine NC got much colder than we did here (a few weeks of minus single digits at night). My garlic is growing again now that things have warmed up. I have never had any issues with 'winter kill' other than a few I didn't plant deep enough and the frost heaved them out. I did mulch with about 4" of leaves and my garlic is in wooden raised beds.

Mulch works both ways, protects in the heat but it also locks the cold in this time of year. Sometimes it is helpful to pull the mulch back so the soil can warm faster. Raised beds should negate that as they warm faster anyway than flat ground.

 

[DFB]

Yea some of the latest recommendations I've seen suggest to pull winter mulches off as soon as possible in the springtime so the ground warms quicker.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

We will see what happens. This fall when I plant I will use more mulch for winter.