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Green shoots of garlic

Garlic leaf shoots

Remember me warning about the dangers of planting things too early and how I was going to try some January planted garlic?  Well in this case my gamble seems to have paid off.  I covered the buried cloves with a cloche and some gardening fleece.  I was worried that I had [...]

Take a chance on January planting of Garlic

Normally I get mr garlic planted in October or early november and by January the cloves have already produced the first green sprouts to over winter.  This year though I left it too late.  I was still keen to try and plant some though.  Research (well Sarah Raven’s Great Vegetable Plot) told me that you [...]