Garlic and tomatoes
Suddenly it was mid year, longest day, time for the garlic to be pulled up. Until a week…
Tag: garlic
Carrots out, Garlic in…
Hard to believe that there was a row of carrots between the parsnips and the beetroot on the…
Planting Garlic
I have normally waited until just before Christmas to plant garlic and left it for six months. This…
Put off for long enough
The idea of digging up all the raspberries, deep weeding, replanting raspberries through cardboard and mulch…. I’ve been…
Changed Plans
The idea this morning was to dig up all the raspberry canes, cover with cardboard and manure, then…
A bit more garlic
We succeeded in growing garlic last year and we used each bulb we dug up, so going from…
Garlic and Potatoes
An escape for myself and Tom from the frustrations of computers and technology, we went off to plant…
Garlic Harvest
Plant on the shortest day, harvest on the longest day – in order to keep to this we…
First harvest – garlic scapes
Long curly stems stared to appear on the garlic which I thought must be it starting to flower. …
Pruning Raspberries Part One
I’ve decided that as long as it continues to rain every day of the week it is simply…
Planting Garlic
The day started with misty drizzle and certainly not the type of weather for going to the allotment,…
First bit of digging
We came armed with our new tools, at £29.99 this seemed like a great deal from Argos, and I…
Compost bins
The TODO list grows each day. I’ve taken the tip of “little and often” and so the only…