Garlic
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Summer Smells like …
It’s been ages since I showed photos of our garden. Today is the first day of Summer, and this year Spring was kind! See what we’ve been up to in our space.
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Garlic Harvest!
Our Dec 2016 garlic harvest was our best ever crop! In 2015, the garlic harvest was sickly, with small bulbs — that’s probably why I can’t find a previous blog post about it. The cloves were quickly rotting, and about half of each bulb ended up being composted. In 2016 we decided to give our garlic crop…
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A bumper garlic crop
I went out into the garden, today, to catch up on how things are growing. I looked at my garlic patch and thought to myself: “These look like they are just about ready!” See how the bottom of the stalks are looking dry and brown? The tops are still green, but starting to show signs…
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Weeds get forked
The other day we experienced a respite from the endless rain, at which point I noticed our garlic patch had become rather overgrown with weeds: Garlic (and other alliums) don’t really like having competition, so I decided to take advantage of the brief sunshine and nip those weeds out. Usually when I do this task,…