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Old 29-10-2020, 10:41 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Frank wrote:

My wife planted garlic in pots on the deck in early spring and got some
nice cloves of garlic.

Now for some reason she planted more about a month or so ago. It is up
and growing but freeze is expected this week.

Can she just let it be and will it return next year and be OK?


it really depends upon what kind of garlic it is and how
cold hardy it might be.

here i grow some hardneck garlic which can freeze and it
will be ok. i don't even mulch it. i probably would not
want to grow it in a pot, but otherwise it has been reliable
every season i've grown it for about 15yrs. some years i've
planted it the day before the ground has frozen and other
times it gets planted earlier (this year i got it planted
last week). it will grow as long as there is enough light
and it is warm enough, then after that if there is enough
snow cover it will stay green under the snow, but even if
there isn't any snow cover and it freezes back to the surface
it will recover once it warms up and then it grows until it
finishes.


songbird