Garlic harvest and update 2013
Growing and looking after my garlic was a little harder this year, as we decided to make some life changes and move from Oxford to Sheffield during it’s growing period. I did manage to make it back to Oxford in …
Garlic
Getting the garlic in
In probably a first for me, I’ve got my autumn sowing garlic in before the end of October. I believe the benefits of sharing the plot with others is already paying off. Recently joined by friend Manishta, and new to …
Garlic offer
Those who know me are aware that I have a bit of an obsession with garlic. This is in part, due to the fact that I love garlic, but also because I’m allergic to onion, so use garlic as a …
Start of the month: August 2012
2nd August 2012 So, anyone notice the slight change to the title of these posts? I’m clearly struggling to always publish on the 1st day of the month, so decided changing the title was better than apologising yet again, for …
Garlic harvest 2011
Today I finally harvested the garlic. And here I am, tired (it’s bloody hot out there*), but happy with the harvest. The picture below shows them drying on racks. Yes, I have cut the stems short, I won’t be plaiting …
Early spring at the lottie
With my back much improved and the sun shining, Kevin and I got down to the lottie on Sunday. It was well and truly time to get the green manure beds dug over, which is what Kevin is doing here. …
Garlic varieties – November 2010 update
I finally got around to pulling together some notes and photos from my garlic harvest. Rather than writing a long blog about each variety, I’m linking here to my Garlic Varieties record sheet (Nov 2010 version). This has a photo …
Garlic harvest
Dug up all my garlic on the weekend and its now drying in the Lemony. As you can see, I’ve carefully separated out each variety so I can continue to collate information about each. I plan on saving the ones …
What’s growing down at the lottie?
It was unbelieveably hot last weekend. Still, the taties just HAD to go in, so Kevin and I slapped on sun factor 50 lotion and silly hats, and went down to the lottie. Mark (co-lottie partner) and Jenny (Mark’s partner) …
yay -o-yay it’s garlic planting day
FINALLY! Finally it wasn’t raining and I could get down to lottie and finish planting the remaining garlic. Besides those mentioned previously, I also planted some more common garlic, Solent Wight and Arno. Good bog-standard garlic, but not as exciting …