Rural Gardening: March on the Homestead, 0 by darius

darius wrote:
Just catching up... computer was on the fritz several weeks. Jay, things are lookin' good!

Thanks for the kind words about my garlic articles. Like Jay, I uncovered mine early, but it was deliberate. I had put down straw last fall, and it was FULL of seed heads. I wanted it up, having learned the hard way how it germinates and chokes out my garlic. Anyway, I took a shot of my garlic before I re-mulched with leaves. The bed to the left is shallots.

sewincircle, you should plant garlic outside, in the fall. You are barely half a zone colder than I am here in the mountains. They need a time to establish roots before winter. They will green up a bit in the fall, and die down. That's okay. Mulch them well and wait. Uncover when the danger of hard freezes is past, they will stand a little frost. Hardneck garlics should do well for you.