I really didn’t do much with these garlic, so only myself to blame. I shoved them into the salad bed last year and pretty much left them to get on with it. However, they didn’t grow very big and, before I knew it, they’d mostly gone to seed. I’ll go back to elephant garlic next year.

I’ve not done a thing in the garden for weeks. Those Gardener’s World types are still out there, but I’ve no idea what they’re doing. Meanwhile, my cauliflowers have gone black, surely not a good sign and the cabbages have stalled. The only things growing are the onions, garlic and broad beans.

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The local garden center had some onions (Electric, red onions and Radar, white onions), so I bought 50 of each. I’ve planted half of them in one of the beds. I pulled up the last of the Victorian potatoes* and put the other half of the onions in that bed. I cleared the end of the salad bed and planted up the garlic (Cristo).

* I don’t think that I’ll be growing these again - low yield and not a lot of taste.

I picked the garlic today to make room for other plants. They look and taste lovely.

I sowed these at the same time as the onions, sometime in early autumn. The garlic (elephant garlic) is doing fine - looks like we'll get lots of nice garlic bulbs to cook with.