Just harvested ours, really pleased. Dont forget to plant up the little side bulbs. Next year they will be a single bulb and the year after they will be proper elephant garlic. You can use them after the first year though.Elephant garlic is ready to harvest, but the ground is so hard at the moment struggling to get it out.
not sure about the garlic - it's already falling over but it's too early, I fear the bulbs are going to be small
I rarely get enough Charlottes to store - we eat them very quickly but it looks like a good crop for me this year - how do you store them ?Garlic and charlottes all out and drying, all the Charlotte new potatoes dug and into storage. It was a good crop. Need to dig the Sagitta next as the slugs are getting into them now the ground has had 3mm of water!!
I was going to net over my loganberries ... there was loads of fruit on them but they were still just turning red ... the blasted wood pigeons had the lot in a single day whilst I was at work when I was going to net them that evening, I was so cross ...Had a great crop of loganberries and now raspberries. The canes for next year are growing well too. Sweet pea in common with all blossom have been excellent. Main disappointment has been parsnips - usually a guaranteed produce. Tomatoes just ripening and a good crop in prospect. French beans will start to be picked tomorrow. Haven't had my early poke at the spuds - they went in very late due to cold and wet but do look OK foliage wise. Beetroot great and lettuce, Eating salads daily now - feel like a rabbit.
I rarely get enough Charlottes to store - we eat them very quickly but it looks like a good crop for me this year - how do you store them ?
I grow mine up against a wall and have a couple of wires that I attach them to by tying in the new shoots at the end of the season. When they have flowered I attach a fleece over them using clothes pegs in a double forwards and return to keep the birds off. When picking I just undo pegs taking the top from the bottom fleece and sort of go underneath the fleece to pick them. I also paint the bottom of the new growth with a splash of emulsion so I know what tp prune out the following year and then paint the next lot.I was going to net over my loganberries ... there was loads of fruit on them but they were still just turning red ... the blasted wood pigeons had the lot in a single day whilst I was at work when I was going to net them that evening, I was so cross ...
Where do you keep them?This year I'm trying some hessian sacks that I've bought from the river place.
James
I've tried keeping Charlottes in boxes of dry compost and they always seem to sprout .... so we generally just gorge ourselves on lovely new potatoes for a few weeks and then look forward to next year. I understand potato merrchants keep their stocks in giant refrigerated buildings but you don't see English new potatoes much out of season so I wonder whether the likes of Charlottes are right for storing ?Where do you keep them?
I’ve tried that and put them in a cool shed but they still sprout after a few weeks.
My most successful storage was keeping them in the bags/sacks they grew in and popping them into the polytunnel to keep dry.
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