I guess the reason I asked, Wayne, was because I grow a lot of garlic, approximately 300 bulbs each year and I have never had anything bother the garlic. Squirrels will dig all over the yard and landscape, looking for grubs, acorns, and probably iris/lily bulbs. Deer simply love my sweet potato leaves/vines in the summer, rabbits have a feast on my lettuce and radish tops, and birds love to peck at my almost ripe tomatoes, just enough make them unsightly and sometime uneatable. We live 125 miles from each other and our growing conditions, at least climate, is almost identical. All my major "crops" are grown in a raised bed. I do have to protect everything mentioned, and I use heavy mesh and wire strands (deer don't like to cross over or under those wire strands) during the summer months. I have never used anything at all to cover my garlic though. Here are a few pictures of what my garlic will look like in the fall (lots haven't even come up yet) and then in the early spring. You'll see how I box everything in. These 4'x8' boxes, constructed of 1"x6" treated lumber, gives me more planting depth and isolates my varieties, one from the other. The pictures were taken 2 years ago, and I have added a few more of these boxes since then.
