Thursday, 17 December 2009

Manure and Garlic

I am on holiday now for a couple of week so i can spend a bit more time on the allotment. Not much to do plant wise but lots of tidying up and setting things out ready for next year.
First job for today was manure. As you can see I dont have a trailer so I use a large builders bag, tie up the corners and shovel it in. Then all i need to do is fork it into the wheelbarrow and on it goes. Granted the car does stink afterwards but i dont mind it too much. Anyway I managed to get 4 car loads on today before it got too cold. The weather forecast is cold and snow but at least there was some blue sky mixed in



The next job was to plant out the garlic. I put these into individual cell earlier in october in the greenhouse. There is plenty of strong growth to get them going and the cold weather will encourage the cloves to split.



These are some autumn onions. They are a little late but they should grow ok for pulling next summer when the autumn onions from this year have run out. The yellow onions grown this year are keeping well but the red ones have started to rot, I believe red dont keep too well so next year i will use them up first instead of storing.