mom2goldens said:Stella--funny how different our zone 5 temperatures are....we've not even had frost yet. Leaves are beginning to change.
Yes, that's what I was thinking -- we finally had a couple of light frosts with the recent full moon, but they didn't hurt anything that's still in the garden (including peppers and the last straggling tomatoes...
and until the USDA changed the zone designations a few years back we were more like zone 4, now we're zone 5a... but after last winter I think they should revisit that idea!!
Chelle, if your soil has decent drainage I don't think your garlic will have a problem with the rain -- we had a horribly rainy fall last year (so much so that I could never get the garden tilled) and then the spring was again very wet (and never DID till the garden!!), and my garlic actually came up better than it ever has, not one miss out of the 150 or so cloves that I planted.
And, Mary Stella, don't worry that you planted your garlic at 4 inches apart -- I've been doing that for years (and even a little closer) and they do fine, just not as large as they could be I guess.
