Friday 26th Nov
We continued to mulch the beds in the garden with farmyard manure and netted the rest of the brassicas against the pigeons.
We planted 3 rows of garlic (French, purple Germinador), split the head into cloves and planted 1″ deep 4″ apart – garlic is a hungry crop and needs fertile soil. Also, an extensive wild snap to make to head divide into cloves.
NB: never use garlic from the supermarket, it would introduce viruses into your soil and will be imported from China so won’t be suitable for our climate.
We dug up a huge harvest of Jerusalem artichokes - not to everyone’s taste! And replanted some tubers for next year.
We also finished off clearing the bed full of strawberries and have lots of spare plants going for free – just call into the studio and ask or they will be composted!
