One of the mistakes I made last year was with the garlic. I hadn't planned to grow garlic last year but when I spotted some in the gardening centre last spring, I decided to give it a go and so you can imagine my pleasure when I pulled them up months later to discover that I had grown garlic bulbs! Sadly many of them were large singles and even the ones that had split into multiple cloves were only small. On a quick internet search it turns out that garlic needs to have a cold winter to encourage the bulbs to split. So this year I ordered seed garlic from the Really Garlicky Company and following their fantastic instructions, went ahead and planted them in a modules tray to start growing slowly over the winter ready for planting in the spring. Ideally I should have planted them straight in the ground but as I have to finish building my raised beds yet I put them in the trays for now. Fingers crossed for some monster garlic this year!!
This year's garlic starting out in module trays on top of the quail-house!
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