Celery Ready for the FreezerYesterday I was going to take down the whole lettuce bed. It also contains some herbs and celery. I did get the celery down before I was distracted by the garlic.
Looking EastThe beds are really starting to look bare as I slowly pull things out. Do you see the string running along the beds? Well my daughter's dog understands that he is not supposed to go into the beds and is usually pretty good. But if something is in the way (like a person), he ignores it and just walks across them to get where he wants to go. Or cuts the corner if he is in a hurry. So I put up the string to give him a boundary. I'm no longer letting him down the long paths. He wasn't happy about that. But my newly planted garlic will thank me.
Looking WestThis view is even more bare, but it is deceptive since there is a full bed of Asian greens and some beans past the row cover. And under that row cover are my cabbages and kohlrabi.
That is some vigorous Mold. To bother growing on Garlic. Hmm :)
ReplyDeleteDarned animals in the garden! Annie went to sleep on the onions again, so I finally moved them to a raised bed. I had to move the lettuce cage over to cover my spinach seedlings, as the squirrels were digging them up to bury walnuts. They even uprooted a recently planted raspberry cane! I've never seen so many squirrels in the past and I fear I'll have hundreds of walnut trees growing by spring.
ReplyDeleteThat's too bad about the garlic. I know smaller onion sets make larger onions, maybe you'll find the same happens with garlic cloves. You can always hope!
Last year I bought some garlic for planting, but when it arrived it was all mouldy and I had to ask for a replacement (which was duly provied FOC), which proves the point that even the biggest firms can have issues like the one you encountered.Let's hope that the "B-team" garlic does OK!
ReplyDeleteToo bad about the garlic. I wonder if there were more mold spores than usual on the cloves? I need to cut some celery and freeze it today, before it gets frozen in the ground.
ReplyDeleteAlways enjoy seeing the "big picture" of your garden. You make such good use of the fall days.
ReplyDeleteYou've reminded me that I must get my garlic (and broad beans) in. I haven't had great success in the past but bought a bulb of Purple Wight as well as onion sets at a recent RHS show. Will definitely be getting the string tin out for my planting, got to keep the (neighbours) cats off!
ReplyDeleteMy garlic crops looks like being pathetic this year. Not only did I not plant enough but what I did plant has grown really poorly. I think it needs more sun than I can give it unfortunately. I was able to grow a full years supply up until a couple of years ago but over the last couple of years (since my neighbours trees grew that bit taller) have been a lot more challenging.
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