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Transcript: Here we are, it’s the second day of April, the woodcocks have just arrived back in our meadows. And here we are looking at our garlic, and friends we did not mulch our garlic in the fall with something classic, you might expect to like straw or other kinds of mulch. We mulched it with, in fact, row cover.
And so this is what it looks like, first thing in the spring, when it’s beginning to regrow. It’s about two three inches tall, and this is the perfect time to take off the row cover. If you’re covering mulching your garlic with something that’s actually covering it that isn’t straw, it’s really important that you get it up and off those leaves as quickly as possible. With straw, it’s going to just be growing up through that and don’t think twice. But with something like our row cover, we use two layers of it. So it’s really nice good insulation, even in the winters that don’t have great snow cover. Snow cover is a phenomenal insulator. And so you don’t really have to worry about your garlic dehydrating, desiccating in the middle of the winter with those chilling winds the freeze thaw when there’s really good snow cover, but if there isn’t that snow cover, it’s that’s where the mulch –two layers of our floating row cover makes all the difference.
And I’m so delighted that it is now up and off, and right now I’m going to do some more special things to take care of our garlic but let me not get ahead of myself. I just wanted to show you that — OH my goodness — Spring has sprung, that there is life in this earth, and that even the garlic is coming back full force. Happy spring.
