Today's Pickings

[Stink Bug]

Pulled up the elephant garlic today.



The normal garlic had been drying in the greenhouse for a couple of weeks.



Pretty happy with the end result.

 

[alp]

Wonderful harvest, @Stink Bug !

Garlic growing is really rewarding - even I have had quite a few .. and I don't really go in for vegs ..

 

[Stink Bug]

Wonderful harvest, @Stink Bug !

Garlic growing is really rewarding - even I have had quite a few .. and I don't really go in for vegs ..

First time i had grown them over winter.
So yeah it's nice to be rewarded with a decent crop.

 

[alp]

Apparently, you have to plant them in a very hot and sunny place.

Here's something relevant

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/garden/620031/Garden-plant-garlic-autumn-summer-harvest

 

[marlingardener]

Lovely harvest of great looking garlic! You certainly have had success with overwintering garlic. Calling that a "decent crop" is a masterful understatement!
We plant and overwinter also, and garlic does very well for us. The home-grown and air-dried garlic is more, shall we say, forceful, than commercial garlic!

 

[alp]

Love the aroma of garlic. I can smell my rosemary, garlic and lemon thyme.. now - having a roast now..

Lovely harvest of great looking garlic! You certainly have had success with overwintering garlic. Calling that a "decent crop" is a masterful understatement!
We plant and overwinter also, and garlic does very well for us. The home-grown and air-dried garlic is more, shall we say, forceful, than commercial garlic!

 

[zigs]

And sorted most of the seed crop

 

[zigs]

 

[alp]

I wish I had these two spring onions. I was supposed to use them for my Roasted Duck. Couldn't be bothered to buy them. In the end, improvisation again.

 

[zigs]

I wish I had these two spring onions. I was supposed to use them for my Roasted Duck. Couldn't be bothered to buy them. In the end, improvisation again.

I got some more if you want some

 

[alp]

Well, I am a genius, so Ian said! Hehehe!

I used the green bits of Fennel which has a lovely flavour. I chopped them up and grated ginger and stuff honey, sugar, salt, garlic powder inside the duck's cavity. So pleased with myself. At least, I didn't waste the lovely fennel top which had a lovely anise flavour.. which goes well with roasted duck.. I must say your spring onions look lovely, the white bits just the right length for the purpose.

 

[zigs]

To go with potato, onion and garlic Kiev curry

 

[marlingardener]

I cut two nice heads of broccoli, and picked a half-gallon bag of spinach. Now I have to decide if I just let it go and freeze solid over the next few nights (predictions in the low 20's, upper teens) or cover it for protection. My husband is lobbying heavily for letting the spinach go. I hate to see a grown man beg, but I think I'll pop a cover on it anyway.

 

[Silentrunning]

Since I found out how good fresh spinach is in salad none of it goes to waste around here. I vote to cover it.

 

[marlingardener]

Silent, spinach makes a great salad, especially now that our leaf lettuce is done. I toast a few pecans, throw in a few thawed cranberries, and use a walnut/raspberry vinagrette dressing on our spinach salad.
I'm covering it!