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Sun, Oct 16, 11 at 8:57
| I have grown garlic in Minnesota before but have never seen such a prolonged summer/fall- I planted it too soon and now have six inch green sprouts.
It has yet to freeze here (Oct 16,2011). Can anybody tell me what I can expect? Do I need to do something to save this planting? |
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- Posted by crisismode 7 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 16, 11 at 13:08
| You will probably be just fine as long as long as the bed is well-mulched. You will probably get some freeze-browning on the leaves but that's not going to kill the plant. Here in New England I've grown various alliums that had leaves of 3" to over a foot tall by the time real freezing weather hit, and with a good leaf mulch they all survived through to spring and grew very well. |
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| I did the same thing in MN last year as well. Had 6" to 8" tops before we really got a good freeze last year. No issues whatsoever. 100% germination and they all made it through the winter just fine. Over 100 bulbs. softneck and hardneck too - they were both great. I mulched about 4" to 5" of leaves and they were easily through the top of that. |
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