Things are looking good for the garlic, which was a bit of a cheap experiment. Rather than buying expensive proper planting bulbs from the garden centre, I picked a few cloves out of a half-used bulb we had at home for cooking and planted them at the start of January, not sure whether they would work out at all.
The cats immediately took delight in kicking over the pots and knocking out all of the soil, but despite that trauma I went out this morning to find two very healthy shoots poking out from the top of the most badly-damaged of them. The other pot, in which there are a further two cloves, is showing no signs of life just yet.
Fortunately I got all of these cloves in before the end of winter, giving them some time to get very cold before spring arrived, but going on the success so far (which could of course revert to flop status) I’m tempted to try planting some more to boost the crop using cloves that have been in the outhouse through the coldest months in the hope that will have worked just as well.
It’s making me look forward to summer salads already.
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