I have normally waited until just before Christmas to plant garlic and left it for six months. This year’s batch was not the best, I don’t think it got cold enough and so not all the bulbs split up into separate cloves by the time it came to harvest. The garlic was still usable but could had been so much better. Planting mid October will hopefully give them a bit more of a chance. I’ve planted a mixture of cloves from difference sources and mixed them all up, it will be interesting what will pop up.
Today is a day of drizzle and rain, so just a quick visit to plant garlic, weed/hoe, and pick some bits to bring back home.
- carrots
- turnips (first lot of this batch, I will give up growing turnips in the spring as they never come to much whereas late summer planted ones are always good)
- broccoli
- tomatoes (another ‘last harvest’ of mostly green ones but a good lot of ripe ones too
Raindrops on leeks 
L to R – onions, carrots, leeks, carrots 
potatoes in the background, holding on in the wet… 
Rows of garlic planted, inbetween beetroot yet to be pulled 
Will soon be garlic and broad beans… now just wet and bare 
Parsnips and celeriac 
Garlic planted in the foreground – broad beans will fill up the rest 
Really will be the last lot of tomatoes…. 
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