garlic harvest

[lottie lou]

Applause please.  Just lifted the best garlic ever grown.

[lottie lou]

[RenishawPhil]

Well done!! Ours rotted in the wet winter soil!

However our onions are looking good

Are people bothering to water their onions btw?

[Jayb]

  Well done Lottie

[lottie lou]

I haven't bothered watering summer onions due to time it takes to water squashes, newly transplanted stuff, stuff in containers and tommies etc.  They seem to be doing okay though.

[telboy]

lottie,
After last year's weather/harvest, the garlic result was quite small bulbs. I replanted the best of the cloves and planted in very large containers. Just lifted & all were 'smallish' bulbs this time. Not gonna give up as it's an unknown Italian variety. Two years ago I had very large (oily) bulbs with large cloves which I froze and am still eating.
I'm hoping to return to the good old days of two years ago as the garlic juice just ran out of them when pressed.
Not watering onions, as you say, with all the other crops, with this crazy weather at the mo'. Leaving the winter stuff as it looks O.K.
The strawberries have just about finished (record crop), had to water the peas as the pods are filling.
Don't talk about rasberries - any one got a freezer for sale (like the sign on the Dover Cliffs)
We're full!

[galina]

Good news on your garlic!  All the moisture earlier must have done some good.

[BarriedaleNick]

Well done lottie lou!!

Due to white rot I tried growing in containers this year - well half on the plot and half in the garden in troughs.
The container grow crop is fantastic - some really big ones as compared to the plot grown lot..

Also I have always thought that planting the biggest cloves would get the biggest garlic but not for me this year.  Some of the weediest looking ones had the biggest bulbs..

Not much white rot on the plot either..

Yes I do water my onions!

[antipodes]

I had quite a good harvest too this year! About 25 bulbs, pretty healthy looking, I have just brought them home to tidy, plait and store them.

My echalotes are mostly lifted, and the onions are all flopped over and ready to start drying. I will start lifting the first ready ones next weekend. Even though I got attacked by that onion weevil/worm/larva thingy, the surviving ones are actually looking great, very big.