February garlic

Heard about Elephant garlic on Gardeners' world, and managed to get some from Wilkos.

Planted three large elephant garlic cloves and some ordinary garlic.

Elephant garlic

February 2017

One nice sunny Saturday afternoon we decided to pay the LG a visit.

Did a spot of tidying up ready for planting.

Apple tree given to us by a LG friend seems to have taken root.

Tidying the strawberry bed....

Winter onions planted during November are coming through nicely

January 2017

Broad beans

Just looking at packets of seeds in a store, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Wrong time to be buying seeds." Well, it was October. I smiled and said, "Looking for next year."

This kind gentleman gave me some useful advice. He told me that he planted broad bean seeds on boxing day.

He put them in small trays and placed a toilet roll holder as a surround. This apparently shelters the seeds and they can be kept in a conservatory or a cold frame.

So, I purchased a packet of broad beans and not quite on boxing day, but one day in January, did as he suggested  and put the tray in a cold frame.

In the middle of February I noticed  shoots had come up.

These are ready to be planted in pots, before putting them into the ground.