Garlic

3 February 2008

The garlic continues to grow and I now have the full twenty-one plants above ground, five of which were random cloves that had started sprouting in the fridge. It’ll be interesting to see how the final harvest of those compares to that from the cultivated cloves. I’ve been trying to get a photo of the plants for ages now, but because they’re so damn low just plonking my camera down there on the ground with them and hoping for the best never quite worked. So this morning I laid down next to them (on a mat – I ain’t no fool) and just about managed to get my focus on the garlic at the front of the shot rather than the fence, or a small stone five feet away.

As for my compost, well I find it very difficult not to bore people with the latest important news and thoughts on that matter, so suffice it to say that I’m getting a new and bigger plastic bin for it soon, a builder was here to do a bit of maintenance on the fence the other day and I was very excited to nab his used teabag for my compost (we’re coffee drinkers, you see) and in buying some tulips to brighten up my office, yes, I was half thinking “great, when they’re dead, I can add them to the pile”. Fortunately for everyone around me, meat should not be added to compost, so I’m not thinking that about them.

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13th March 2008 @ 2:20 pm

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