Archive for November, 2011
Planting garlic
It’s the middle of November and I’ve realised I haven’t posted anything on the blog for some time. That’s not because we haven’t been doing anything, but more because it feels like a lot of the things done in the garden are just a repeat of what was done last year – so nothing much new. Today I planted out the garlic – around 100 cloves of Solent Wight, a softneck variety that is meant to produce large bulbs and stores well (hardneck varieties don’t store so well). I’ve purposely grown quite a lot so that I can try using some of the cloves produced to plant out next year. Other jobs to do in the next few weeks are to prune the apple trees and fruit bushes and trim the hedges. Other than that there isn’t much else to do at the moment…or so I thought! Read the rest of this entry »