✅ Another vegie bed emptied, weeded, and dug (I have found that the roots of a nearly shrub/tree (I suspect the white fig) had sent roots through the plastic lining and had filled the bed, so my "no dig" garden bed isn't. Now I understand why last year's garlic was a disappointment, and why this year's pumpkin was running at about 30% of capacity...)
I've picked all the remaining spring onions and leeks, chopped them into lengths, including the greens, and put them in brine to ferment. A great way to preserve them for use.
I picked them so that I am not tempting fate with the onion aphids that are on the flat-leaf chives and are under control but not dissipating. I may need to go find something stronger to use on them.
There are a few on the garlic shoots and I don't want them multiplying.
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This year I have a few black-eyed peas growing. They are a delight to watch, from the teeniest, skinniest of beans to plump ripe mature beans. I let them mostly dry on the bush, then pick and shell them and let the beans finish drying inside.
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The sweet mace is beginning to flower.
In other fabulous news #FromTheGarden there are four more 🧄🧄🧄🧄 up! ✅ 💪
Two from the scrap planting* (the planting of all leftover cloves), one Glenlarge and one Spanish Roja.
Garlic sure takes its time. It does what it wants to do. Some are impatient. Others cool, relaxed, chilled out, in no rush. Just like people really 🤔
*The Garlic book I keep mentioning also talks about close planting options with garlic. Had I read this before planting I would have done that with the scrap garlic. Next year, ....
🥕🥕🥕 Not carrots, there is no appropriate emoji, but the daikon radish are up! I am always amazed how a tiny seed turns into a wonderful and edible plant. Nature, hey, it is magnificent if we let it do its job.
With the loquat flower news, it is quite a wonderful day in the garden 😄 😂 ❤️
The loquat tree is in flower!
Despite everything going on in the world, the garden goes through its cycles.
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This Garlic book ( ⬆️⬆️) is a real treasure.
I have had a real problem with aphids on the flat leaf chives that has taken a consistent effort to resolve, and I am still keep a vigilant eye on them. The book talks about them - they are onion aphids! They are attracted only to sulphur scents of alliums. I had wondered why they were not spreading more widely.
Alliums includes garlic so I'll be keeping an eye out.
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🧄 In good news #fFomTheGarden - 2 of the Spanish Roja garlics are up! Also, about ⅓ of the Glenlarge. So tardy, this lot. Planted a week after the first half of the bed, they are 16 days behind them. The garlics in the first half of the bed are growing fast and beautifully.
🧄 Having said that, I saw a new Early Purple emerged today in the first half of the bed.
🧄 Garlics are funny. One moment they have not sprouted, the next they are 2cm or more tall! How does that happen? I need a camera for the garlic bed.
🍓 I picked the last or maybe the penultimate strawberry of the season this morning. Delicious, altho not as sweet as earlier ones. I am very happy with the small strawberry harvest, given the state of the bed after my string of illnesses and so little rain for ages.
🥬 The leafy salad greens are growing strong! Such a delight. So tiny still but I can see my winter salads in this bed.
🌿 The #fermenting plant juice is looking very good. So far, more juice than I expected, fermenting beautifully and no smell.
🌿 Weeds are everywhere #BeautyAmongstTheWeeds
🌶️ The chilli bush looks like it is in its last legs after 3 years of creating hundreds of chillies each season. I plan to cut the branches to remove the chillies (small, Thai-style chillies) and remove the bush, and add compost and mulch to that part of the bed.
🍊 I have some ripe cumquats!
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