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Originally Posted by joseph
Yup. The clove wrappers are the first thing to go. The lack of bulb wrappers is one of the nice things about my brother's garlic. Anytime that he digs them between August and March, they are a bulb in the ground without a dry skin around them. So they are super easy to prepare. We normally just rinse them, cut the root scar off, and fry them. We like our garlic.
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so joe does your ground freeze in winter? you mention aug-march, you couldn't dig anything here in winter. depending when the ground freezes it's solid from late nov or early dec to late feb or early march depending upon diffused sun thru tree branches.
if the ground goes thru a shallow freeze then thaw does that damage the bulbs? i'd expect that to cause them to rot being frozen then thawed then frozen.
the only vegetable i'm aware of being left in the ground all winter and dug in spring is parsnips. they are very dry inside, try that with carrots and they rot so i am told.
tom