Plaited garlic...

My first attempt at plaiting garlic. Not quite Monty Don standard but hey we all have to start somewhere.

The bulbs aren't as big as last years crop as I discovered too late not to plant with or where onions had been. I planted with onions and I think it affected the growth of both onions and garlic.

My white onion crop wasn't too bad but my red onions did nothing. Come October/November when I sow my onions and garlic I will plant the garlic in an old tin bath that belonged to my Mum and Dad.

Off to get some ironing done before it gets too hot.

Bright blessings
From the Cabin x

Garlic and onion harvest and beets on the way...

Last weekend we harvested our garlic, I had never grown it before and though there was plenty of foliage to be seen....

 

Garlic on the right this was quite early on.

I didn't know if there was anything going on in the earth. so with some trepidation hubby pushed the fork in and slowing lifted the earth; and surprise, surprise up came lots of garlic bulbs. Some are quite small but that doesn't matter. Here they are drying off....

You can see in the top photo on the left the foliage of the red onions. These were amazing, they didn't grow particularly large but the just grew out of the ground almost harvesting themselves he he. Like the garlic we had not grown onions before but we will be again this year.

The onion and garlic sets are planted in the fall and harvested in July the following year. The main draw back to this is space. I only have the patch of ground they were for growing outside (other than containers) so they do delay the planting of my butternut squash plants. Still this weekend we will (or I should say hubby) will be digging this tiny patch of earth over and digging some nutrient rich earth and I will get the squash plants and my final 2 sweet corn plants planted.

And finally, my beets. they are growing in the greenhouse and one side the leaves are enormous, while I was in the greenhouse tying up my tomato plants I noticed that some of the beets are showing above the ground, they are not as big as I thought they might be going the leaves but it might not be time to lift them yet. I will check my growing vegetables book.

I will share my beet harvest soon.

Bright Blessings from the Cabin xxx