Friday, October 10, 2014

October planting

Another terribly summer! Unbelievably wet and saved only by a good August and mild September.
The Carrot week carrots did well, and so did the Chantenay eventually. The onions did better than some years but the garlic was pretty hopeless.
Some of the garlic failed to divide and most of it only produced a few cloves per bulb. Today I planted out six squares as shown. The White garlic is simply a replant of the undivided cloves.
The beans were no-shows except for two pods of broadbeans! The potatoes did unusually well though, must have been all the rain.
I put the garlic in the lefthand deep box - I need to remove the soil from teh shallow box and renew the liner at the bottom.











Icelandic purple
Italian red
White

Bulbils
Purple-white
Purple-white