Child of the Planet

Had to pull up the cloche frames that were protecting the tomatoes and use them to protect the garlic crop. Good time to see what sort of a harvest I’ve ended up with.      I planted these in January ( read here ) so I’m pretty happy with the result Click here if you can't see the video above Cleaned the tomatoes up, cooked for a minute in the pressure cooker, then extracted the juice with the mouli. After a terrible summer, looks like I will be making home made spag bol this winter after all. I cleaned up the ones that were not quite ‘there’, and dropped them into a box to ripen.

Just on two weeks after planting Mate gave me some onions seedlings to plant

This is the first year that I’ve got all my ‘shits in a row’. Ground is prepped Mulch is chewed Garlic has cooled it’s heels in the fridge. And it’s all ready a month earlier than the traditional ‘shortest day of the year’ when I usually plant my garlic crop. It’s been an epic journey so here are some links for speed bring up too... This is my first crop of anything in this bed. Read about it’s construction here  finishing-raised-garden-build I’ve spent a year developing the soil in this bed making-soil-update Where I wake up the garden bed for this years crop  garlic-week-day-one Huge load of mulch created  garlic-week-day-two Finally some garlic action  garlic-week-day-three Break in work for rain  garlic-week-day-four Over the last couple of days there’s been a final application of ash and coffee grounds      I’ve raked the soil to break up clumps and dry it out a bit.      Pulled the garlic out of the fridge Planted the cloves and covered it all in mulch      Video summary of prep