Garlic planting

Last year's crop was so poor that it almost all went back in the ground! Here are two photos taken before I covered up the garlic. This was back in early October. - I recently bought some Icelandic-grown garlic, and I will shove some of that in too, in the square where the trowel is (and maybe the one next to it).

August bank holiday

This has to have been the worst summer ever! May was certainly the wettest, and it has been cool and wet the whole time. The garlic is so bad that it is hardly worth digging it up. I've left the Icelandic red garlic in for the time being, and one square of white garlic. The French garlic did best - as in two of them turned into things that look like small heads of garlic!
The shallots look as though they might have done better.

Spring and carrots

I had decided not to sow any early carrots this year, but it is such a lovely warm day today! I added mushroom compost and dried seaweed to two squares (left back box, two squares on right hand side) and sowed a square of Nantes in the corner, and one of mixed coloured carrots in front of it. No doubt we will have a cold spell soon though.
There is a lot of grass in the box :-(