Garlic

What a lot of stuff grew under the cloche this winter. Maybe a hint for what we could do next year?

In order, left to right.

Iberian Wight

Early Purple Wight

Solent Wight

Albigensian Wight

All from the garlic farm on the Isle of Wight.

Weeding onions, lawn treatment

Grass was growing all around the onions. Dealt with by Tamsin whilst I gently mowed and scarified.  So gently I bent the mower handle.  Nothing a hammer can't sort out.

Not a spud master

I explored the winter spuds yesterday.   Four out of nine have not come up. In the process I found a few shoots under a few cm of soil by breaking them off. Oops. I've covered them in domes. Hopefully some TLC will help.   What a fool.   Not my first mistake like this. When dutifully weeding a couple of days after planting them I damaged a couple. They might be the missing ones :(

Yesterday I also attacked a rose whilst Tamsin planted tulips. I beat the rose 5-1.  You couldn't see the yew hedge when I started.

Finally, a big compost rethink today. Made the near-house pile smaller and the far pile bigger to encourage stirring. 

Autumn settling in

Veggies taken out, onions and Christmas spuds in.  Leeks slowly progressing.

Wisteria haircut

St Monty of Don's henchman says cut to six buds through the summer, then two in January/February.

A squash in a cup

A friend offered a special support for our squash. We'll need more soon.

White "Blue banana" (squash) flowers

Disappointing!