Sunday, 20 August 2023

Open for orders 2023

 We are open for garlic orders! 

Check out the printable 2023 Catalogue

 You can also find a list of the strains, what has sold out, and what is still available, on the 2023 Catalogue page.

And if you still have garlic to trim, consider making some hardneck garlic bundles this year. 

Here's a quick and simple method, on my recently published how-to video: How to make Hardneck Garlic Bundles (bitchute.com)













Monday, 14 August 2023

So Many Earth Worms at Harvest Time!

I love earth worms, sometimes it is so dry at harvest that they bury themselves deep and I see very few of them when I'm digging up the garlic, so the silver lining of a wet year is the gratitude I feel for those little immigrants who nurture my plants from the roots up. Years ago my sister gave me a book on earthworms (The Earth Moved: on the remarkable achievements of earthworms, by Amy Stewart)  and I learned that some types of worms live exclusively around the roots of plants, others, like red wrigglers thrive only on decomposing material, such as compost piles. The earthworms we know in gardening and farming are mostly European by decent, and compliment agriculture, by being vigorous and active - they decompose things too fast for the slow, gentle undergrowth of old forests, but we like them just fine in our fields.


So, harvest went well, in between the rains, and the garlic is gradually getting dry enough to trim.