Below is my first Italian red onion, with the round courgette, all ready to go into a stir fry. I bent over the foliage on lot's of the onions today ready to dig them up at the week-end, or whenever they look ready to come out. I should be self sufficient with garlic and red and white onions until well into next year. That's providing they all keep well. I grew all the onions from seed as I read that they store better for longer than onion grown from sets, we shall see !!
I went onto the Internet and googled 'plaiting garlic' , I found a good site that had really clear instructions and diagrams, so printed it off and had a go as i want to store the garlic traditionally. Below is the first and final attempt, it was fiddly but worth the effort as it looks nice as well as being good for the garlic as the air circulates well and help preserve it for longer.
This is how the garlic started out, it had just been dug up.
Dry, clean and roots trimmed.
My first attempt at plaiting, it's trickier than you think.
I got better on the second attempt
And below is the link for the instructions and diagrams for plaiting your own garlic.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
PHOTO'S OF THE PLOT TAKEN TODAY.
Nasturtium's, 'tom thumb'French bean flower, 'Fasold'
A Squash flower, they are so beautiful.
First squash.
The sunflower hedge, 'Velvet Queen'
As you can see from this photo the plot opposite has been strimmed of all the tall weeds, it looks so much better.
The blue painted wheelbarrow that was given to me by Ken, another plot holder. I planted it up and it looks great.
Cosmos and dahlias
Dahlia 'Pink Giraffe'
