General information and discussion about cultivating onions, garlic, shallots and leeks.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Bozeman, Montana Zone 6b
Posts: 333
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How low of a temp and for how long can garlic survive? A bit nippy here in the Northern Rocky Mountains.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Ontario
Posts: 3,892
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Music garlic survives in Ontario, Canada
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
Posts: 6,794
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Hardneck garlics do best in the north, and survive cold winters, but a good deep mulch is necessary to hedge your bets. A couple of T'villians have reported losses in exceptionally cold winters without snow cover.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Bozeman, Montana Zone 6b
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A couple of cold nights 28 f will that kill the garlic?
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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28 F won't kill a typical hardneck garlic. There are some more sensitive types that might succomb, I suppose, if they're not mulched and the ground freezes down to where they're planted? Perhaps. Some garlic might get a yellow leaf or two if exposed to those temperatures repeatedly (after it's through the ground). It won't affect production though.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: MA/NH Border
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I grow hardnecks that are planted in the fall and mulched. In the winter of 2017/18 we had about a two week stretch with over night temps below 0F and day-time highs in the single digits. Last summer I had one of the best garlic harvests I several years.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6
Posts: 1,582
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28F will not kill any garlic, even the so called spring garlic.
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