Last week on Nov 12th, I finally finished the garlic bed for the year and mulched it. I used the mulched leaves that I gathered a couple weeks ago from the cottage. They were a mixture of maple ash and poplar leaves. I spread the leaves loosely over the garlic at approximately 2-4 inches deep. I used shredded leaves so that when the garlic sprouts it will be able to push through them. If the leaves were whole the garlic would have more trouble pushing through them.
I also dug up around one clove that I planted a month ago to see how it was doing. Although it didn’t have a sprout on top of the clove, it did have roots! Now I didn’t dig up the whole clove just the side of it so I could see it and then rebury.
I also mulched the asparagus. For this I used whole leaves and spread it around 4 inches deep. I spread it thickly all around the plants with a little right on top. I'm not as worried that the asparagus will have trouble coming up through the leaves. It is a pretty hardy plant.
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