Garlic, shallots and potatoes

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Wednesday 4 February, 2009

by Rosemary at 8:19am in Growing 1 comment Add your own

I've finally received and planted the garlic; this is late for us - normally, we'd be looking to plant it before Christmas. However, I'm hoping that it will do fine. The variety is Wight Christo. I've planted three rows of 6 cloves, which will be enough for us. We don't use a huge amount of garlic, really.

I've also got our shallots - two varieties. These are round shallots this year. In previous years, the varieties we've chosen have been the long type. I hope to get them in early March as our soil is quite well drained.

Our seed potatoes are chitting - Anya, Mayan Gold, Desiree and Druid. I don't seem to have very many potatoes this year - although since we're usually struggling to find places to plant them, so maybe that's no bad thing! It's almost certain that I'll buy more sometime - there are so many varieties and I'm a bit of a salesman's dream.

It's nice to feel like the new season is now getting underway - despite the snow!

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Comments

A.T. Hagan

Wednesday 4 February, 2009 at 7:42pm

Here in Florida we'd plant the garlic in fall as it's a cool season crop for us. I didn't plant any this year for lack of space, but I do have a good big planting of onions.

This coming weekend I'll put my potatoes in and hope our recent spate of very cold weather doesn't do them in.

.....Alan.

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