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Transcript: This friends is the dream, not only because it’s beautiful and picturesque and straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. This is ideal because when there’s snow on your garlic beds, insulating your garlic beautifully, and regardless of whether you mulched your garlic with eight inches of straw, if you were able to just put a tiny bit of row cover on, if you didn’t put anything on your garlic — it’s ideal to have a good snow cover throughout the winter.
And historically, it was really consistent that as soon as it started to snow, it would accumulate. And we had snow here in the Finger Lakes, basically till Easter. But increasingly, we’ll have lots of lovely snow and then it’ll melt and then lots of more snow and it’ll melt and all disappear and know that that is not ideal for your garlic. And here are a couple things to keep in mind. Certainly this insulated blanket that is the snow on on the garlic is awesome. But when our snow disappears I’ll be out here walking the field, and I’ll be looking for any of those cloves that we buried under the ground that may have lifted up to the surface and the freeze-thaw, freeze-thaw. And if it’s still in the winter, their root systems have established a little bit but not that much. And you can actually save your garlic.
If you see it approaching the surface level by simply taking your hand and putting it back into the ground, putting some soil over it tamping it down lightly. So there’s a little tiny bit of constrictions and it’ll stay down. And so that is hands down kind of a last resort, but you can totally save garlic that way. So especially if you weren’t able to mulch your garlic either with straw or leaf mulch, or simply with row cover, and then the snow comes but then the snow melts. You’re going to be wanting to go out and scouting for any garlic cloves that have slowly through the freeze thaw cycle lifted up and they’re at the surface level — putting them back down.
And in the meantime, I hope that it’s knows Let it snow let it snow, let it snow. Enjoy the beautiful snow and know that your garlic is toasty warm. That’s probably not accurate! But it’s very content and safe and getting ready to thrive in the year to come when there’s this beautiful snowfall blanketing it.
