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Garlic – done differently!
Instead of just planting garlic in the ground, I tried a few different methods to get it growing and I’m delighted with the results. A couple of years ago, on the allotment, I planted out all my garlic and waited patiently. Sadly, all – and I mean ALL of it, rotted away in the cold…
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Busy doing…stuff
You know the type of day when you’ve been really busy, just doing stuff? Well, that’s been my day today. I won’t go into detail about the usual stuff I do like cleaning etc, I’ll just tell you about the couple of other things I did. First of all, I made some more honey chai…
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Autumnal skies on the plot
I also finally got the last of the garlic planted in the polytunnel. I am aware our clocks go back here in the UK, this weekend which is great for my sleep but not so great for my ability to get to the allotment during the week. As it is, we are racing the sunset…
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Garlic Moon?!
Ok I’ve mixed two things I did together to come up with that title. We had a gorgeous, sunny and warm day here and I don’t care if it’s not ‘meant’ to be like that here in October – I’ll take it! I nipped into the new polytunnel in the garden and checked the temperature…
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My pickled garlic has turned blue!
Imagine my surprise when I went to the fridge to get my jar of pickled garlic, only to discover many of the cloves had turned a very interesting shade of blue/green. I admit my first thought was ‘botulism’, so I had a quick look on the interwebzone to see if this stuff was still edible…
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Raw garlic and honey….
At this point, I am practically bathing in these two natural delights. Don’t worry, this isn’t a ‘poor me’ post – quite the opposite in fact, well almost. I have been trying lately to post a poem for Fridays but this week wasn’t entirely conducive to poetry writing so I thought I’d do a quick…
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Keeping my chin(s) up
Today’s post might not be very long – I am a little under the weather. Actually I’m also sick of the weather. I woke up the other day and had ‘that’ feeling – the one I know all too well. It means the house isn’t going to be tidy, meals aren’t going to be great…
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No Dig Gardening ~
Did you know November 3rd is No Dig day? To celebrate, I thought I would share with you my recent planting of garlic, onions and shallots – No Dig style. In case you don’t konw what I’m talking about, No Dig (or No Till), is all about a style of gardening wehre the soil is…
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