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Sowing garlic, or is it planting?

30/1/2012

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I was on the plot for a short while on Saturday. I finished off a third raised bed for the allium family! The other two beds are one for asparagus and one for carrots/parsnips.

I will swop the onions and carrots each year, but the asparagus bed is there to stay so it needed a really top notch weeding. I was trying to get every tiny scrap of couch grass root out. There is a lot on my plot.

In the allium bed I started to put in some garlic. I had left the cloves in the shed to get a good chilling. Apparently this helps them to split later in the season.

However, at this point, my youngest son got too cold and fed up. It is hard to concentrate on garlic bulbs and entertain a one year old at the same time, so I left half of the garlic for another day.
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