multi-planting onions

b54red · April 5, 2011

As to whether this technique will work on garlic, I would say not. Just a few weeds in the garlic can stunt it's size so I don't think it would like to compete with 2,3 or 4 full size garlic plants. I have grown garlic in clumps before to get seed stock and the resulting garlic heads have always been much smaller than the ones well spaced.

davespitzer, I always mulch my onions to cut down on the weeding and also to keep soil from splashing up on the stems and giving them diseases. I usually mulch with grass clippings that I saved in large garbage bags once they were dry and they worked great. I didn't save any this year so I am using very fine pine bark mulch. So far it is really helping but some weeds still come through. Besides helping with the weeds it will just provide more organic matter to till in later.

April 5, 2011	#14
b54red Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Alabama Posts: 7,068	As to whether this technique will work on garlic, I would say not. Just a few weeds in the garlic can stunt it's size so I don't think it would like to compete with 2,3 or 4 full size garlic plants. I have grown garlic in clumps before to get seed stock and the resulting garlic heads have always been much smaller than the ones well spaced. davespitzer, I always mulch my onions to cut down on the weeding and also to keep soil from splashing up on the stems and giving them diseases. I usually mulch with grass clippings that I saved in large garbage bags once they were dry and they worked great. I didn't save any this year so I am using very fine pine bark mulch. So far it is really helping but some weeds still come through. Besides helping with the weeds it will just provide more organic matter to till in later.