Garlic Drying

Top shelf is our own self-saved (originally from supermarket bulbs), now 5th generation. 

Onions

 Maincrop Golden Bear

Spring onions White Lisbon

Peas Out - Kale In

 Quick turn round

The final picking of this years peas

Kale plants are a bit small but putting them out saved potting them on

Assorted Harvests

 June 19th

June 21st

June 22nd

Controlling white rot

White rot fungus spores (sclerotia) are triggered into action by the presence of allicin. In theory spreading garlic powder gets the fungus growing but not finding a suitable host it dies before setting more spores.

Last year 25% of our bulbs were affected, this year 7%

Done, ready for an interim crop before planting up the same beds with onions and garlic again in autumn.

Canterbury Bells

 

Peas, garlic and winter onions

 

50 Autumn Champion autumn planted onions.

First picking of broad beans

 Later this year due to a cold spring. Overwintered Aquadulce Claudia.

Cinnabar Moth

 

 Beds are filling rapidly and crops are moving at last after an unseasonably cold spring.