Derald wrote:
The Cook wrote:

As far as I remember, the cold here has never killed the garlic. It's
just that 20°F is miserably cold. The garlic was planted in last
October and is about 6" tall.

Thanks. I'll not cover mine unless some of its companions need
protection. I did not plant garlic until the end of November, after the
weather began to cool a bit. It already is over 2' tall, on average.
One bed is interplanted with mustard and turnips and another with a
variety of cool weather veggies.

when we get through to where the snow melts back i'll
be able to see how well that garlic you sent me held up
to the cold.

i'm suspecting that garlic regularly grown in the
Carribean may be a bit tender in comparison to the
garlic i've grown here for many years.

the hard-neck type has stayed green and kept
looking nice at least down to 17F when not snow
covered. under snow it seems to be fine no matter
what happens upstairs. for damage i think it takes
several days of dry freeze 15F or lower. but then
it comes back in the spring anyways and does fine.
that happened last season as we did not have much
snow cover during a severe cold spell. i still
had nice heads of garlic. this winter is being
much colder in comparison, but plenty of snow
cover.

sadly enough, the lady who gave me the garlic
passed away last Sunday at a ripe age of 88.
peacefully and at home so that was good to hear,
but still will miss her as she was quite the
character.


songbird