Quote Originally Posted by Breakage View Post
I used to grow garlic on a farm where I worked. We used the criss-cross planting pattern and mulched heavily, sometimes with hay and other times with bark mulch. Bark is easier to get but you incur lots of mold. We didn't flame the garlic; it was too risky, since we planted on Columbus Day weekend and harvested the following August. Flaming won't damage any weed growth that late in the season and in the spring you risk burning early garlic shoots or setting the row mulch on fire. It's a vigorous plant which requires little weeding and most of it manual, if the mulch cover is decent, removing hardier weeds like Lamb's Quarter and pigweed.

I've had luck growing garlic from the bulbils. The plant can be cultivated from so many different parts that waiting on seed just seems like an unnecessary formality.
I have very god snow coverage to covering with mulch is unnecessary.

Your right about garlic being a vigorous plant only needing to weed during the early stages of growth this is one reason I choose this type of crop.



Garlic will stand up to flame weeding the plants maybe stressed for a day but fully recover.