Vegetable garden progress
We started messing around with our new vegetable plot this last weekend by digging overa couple of square metres and planting a couple of different varieties (artichoke for roasting and silverskin for general cooking) of garlic in the patch where potatoes were grown last year by Miss Dennly. We planted about 30 cloves each about 10cm deep and approx. 10-15cm apart.
Apparently it is best to plant garlic in the autumn but we missed that. I also read that the winter solstice is tradtionally the day for planting garlic.
The garlic will hopefully be ready for harvesting in Autum when the leaves have turned yellow.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Thanks for the post - after moving house (and now having a garden, albeit inhabited by dogs who will probably dig stuff up) we hoped to start growing stuff. Garlic (and things like Onions and Potatoes) sounds a good one to try out.
Where did you get the garlic from? Is it feasible to just plant e.g. stuff we buy in the supermarket? (Perhaps I need to visit the gardening centre near us…)
David.