After the horses’ visit, some onions were scattered around the vegetable garden, so I decided to harvest them, even though most of the leaves were still green.
I harvested the scallions and the garlic too.
Probably due to the clayey soil and the abundant rainfalls, the garlic heads were unusually deep in the ground, and it has been difficult to pull them out (some were left in the soil); I had to use a tool I use to eradicate weeds. I have broken many stems too, so… no garlic braids this summer.
I think that some heads are starting to go mouldy, a humid white dust is covering a part of the tunic. I will let them dry out, together with onions and shallots, and then I will check again.
I will count them before storing. Anyway, even though I have torn some garlic heads and a few onions were partly rotten, it’s a good quantity.
1, 2 – onions harvested
3 – shallots
4 – garlic harvested
5 – roots in the clayey soil
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Comments
seeingreen wrote:
Really good harvest – garlic looks nice and plump.
Posted on 09 Aug 11 (almost 2 years ago)
anelson wrote:
the garlic looks great. Its good to know you can grow it in clay since that is what I have and i will be growing it for the first time this fall.
Posted on 10 Aug 11 (almost 2 years ago)
browndog wrote:
Looks like you have good conditions for growing alliums and that harvest should last quite a while..
Posted on 10 Aug 11 (almost 2 years ago)
laurieann wrote:
that is a lot of garlic and onions! I bet it smells heavenly.
Posted on 10 Aug 11 (almost 2 years ago)
TeresaGreen wrote:
Wow, what a substantial harvest! Looks fantastic. With that many onions what’s your secret for keeping the weeds away – or is it just down to hard graft?
Posted on 11 Aug 11 (almost 2 years ago)
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