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Transcript: The most common thing that kills people’s garlic, believe it or not, is not cold — it is drying out. And that happens one of two main ways. So we plant garlic in the fall, and it’s very cold, certainly, but it’s not going to bat an eye at the cold. But what it can’t handle is the drying desiccating winds of winter and also the freeze thaw freeze thaw cycle. So that’s why two things: we would like to plant it nice and deep: three inches minimum, five – six inches serious bonus points. When you’re planting that deeply. The freeze thaw freeze thaw cycle will lift up those cloves slowly and gently but they won’t lift them up to the surface. And it’s those winter winds over the winter that are coming in, especially if all the snow melts and there isn’t that insulated layer of snow to protect your garlic. Those winter winds just wick away moisture so fast. And so you don’t want to have your garlic at all that clove exposed to the soil anytime over the winter. Certainly, mulch is a great way to moderate that. And even if you planted too early and you are actually getting more than three inches of leaf growth in the fall, all of a sudden that’s exposing that clove — Hello Pancho — to so much more of those desiccating winds. And, all of that material, all of that leaf is all of a sudden going to be drawing up moisture from the clove and it’s going to be sent away by the winter wind.
So yes, now you know the easiest way to ensure that your garlic is not going to die is to plant it deeply, to mulch it, and to not plant it too early. So, that you’re planting nice and deeply establishes roots but doesn’t have too much greenery above the soil before the snows really fly. And there you have it friends.
