Cold Survival of Garlic

whoose · May 21, 2019

How low of a temp and for how long can garlic survive? A bit nippy here in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

Labradors2 · May 21, 2019

Music garlic survives in Ontario, Canada

. I do mulch it though.

Linda

bower · May 21, 2019

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.

whoose · May 22, 2019

A couple of cold nights 28 f will that kill the garlic?

bower · May 22, 2019

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.

Father'sDaughter · May 23, 2019

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.

zipcode · May 23, 2019

28F will not kill any garlic, even the so called spring garlic.

May 21, 2019	#1
whoose Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Bozeman, Montana Zone 6b Posts: 333	Cold Survival of Garlic How low of a temp and for how long can garlic survive? A bit nippy here in the Northern Rocky Mountains.

May 22, 2019	#4
whoose Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2015 Location: Bozeman, Montana Zone 6b Posts: 333	Spring Frost A couple of cold nights 28 f will that kill the garlic?

May 21, 2019	#2
Labradors2 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Ontario Posts: 3,895	Music garlic survives in Ontario, Canada . I do mulch it though. Linda

May 21, 2019	#3
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	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.

May 23, 2019	#6
Father'sDaughter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: MA/NH Border Posts: 4,919	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.

May 23, 2019	#7
zipcode Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6 Posts: 1,582	28F will not kill any garlic, even the so called spring garlic.