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The leaves and grass clippings might work, just keep an eye out incase they breakdown too quickly and you need to top ofg. I've always used hay / garden straw for my garlic mulch. It lasts the winter and when I harvest the garlic I just mix it into the soil to continue to compost in place.
The one problem I keep running into with the hay is seeds, even though they are not supposed to have any, causing new hay to start growing. So there's some extra wedding that I need to do. It can be hard to distinguish from the garlic at first, but as they mature it becomes more obvious and I've learned how to more easily tell them apart.
I've got a bag full of fresh cut leaves, so hopefully that would last long, if not, I could use some grass clippings, speaking of which our grass could use a mowing right about now, maybe first thing in the morning 😅
Didn't know that about hay having "rogue" seeds in it but I guess that makes sense, I wouldn't know where to get hay where I live although I live near a farm so I could ask them if they got any spare but I don't have the social skills to randomly just turn up and ask for some lmao 😅