We planted two varieties - a "tasmanian" purple softneck and this beautiful, pink, hardneck that we found in amongst some garlic at the greengrocers once.
We bulked it up last winter and this year have planted half of our crop (total of about 600 plants) to this variety because it tastes really good and keeps brilliantly.
At about the same time in April, we cleared up the summer gardens, rototilled them and then sowed the area to our usual green manure - oats, tic beans (small fava/broad beans), peas and lupins.
These survived the really wet weather and are now growing very quickly. I think I'll be slashing these and getting the summer beds ready in about 2 or 3 weeks.
This closes our annual cycle as we started this blog at around this biological time last year
1 comment:
hey stan,
didnt get that garlic you gave me in in time so ate it instead. I'll just have to ride down with a dozen or so fish of the hundreds I hope to catch in the coming months and do a deal! Please keep posting up stuff as its bloody great inspiration especially when you go into detail (eg with the tomato growing methods).
liam
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