Anyone with an allotment?

I have something flowering here but can’t remember what’s in there. Garlic, leeks a something else???

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Dig one up, should be more obvious! My guess is leeks.

I snap the flowers off Onions & Leeks you want the energy going into the root not the flower.

I can fully recommend confit-ing

Can you recommend a recipe?

I use as much oil as I need to cover the peeled cloves, then about 90c for about 40 minutes. Depending on how low your hob goes might need a bit of babysitting to keep at that temp - you want to avoid bubbling.

Will definitely be doing this. Sounds great. I presume you store them in oil after as well?

Yep, just keep them in the oil!

Cheers, this sounds mouthwatering.

What’s this for garlic?

It is

So my onions and garlic are just starting to turn as well so pulled a garlic but they look small to me? Thoughts? Think they went in oct/nov ish..
Some onions def look a bit chonkier tho.

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Patience will reward. Iirc I think I was lifting my winter planted garlic around July last year.

Cool, good to know, assumed that was the case but just checking the slightest turn wasn’t the sign the plant is done. My first onion crop lol

There’s so much knowledge on the allotment but very few seem prepared to give it out.

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Any good ideas regarding ‘wild bits’ We use woodchip paths, and so anywhere that wasn’t path/bed I have sowed wildflower seeds over the last couple of years. While I now have great swathes of meadowy areas, I’m concerned about (particularly grasses/dandelions) self seeding into my raised beds. Reluctant to just strim down everything, but also want to make sure it’s manageable.

This is where we're all headed:

https://twitter.com/geraldstratfor3/status/1400729421477298176?s=19

Seriously though, he seems to know his stuff so worth a follow.

He was on GW a few weeks ago. He was great. Lots of horse manure was his advice.

The guy loves a potato

Been following him for ages. He is one of the only good things on that hell website and seems a genuinely lovely chap.

I'm guessing the leaves need to go a fair bit yellower. Mine have looked like this for ages. Garlic noob, though.

With garlic, the advice I follow (from Charles Dowding) is plenty of moisture until mid June, then drier towards harvest which is late June to mid July. Poke under the soil from mid June to see if the bulbs are swollen. Pull after loosening the soil once your happy with the size, or if plants have bad case of rust.

This book is my veg growing bible - https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/organic-gardening-the-natural-no-dig-way/author/dowding-charles/

"find yourself someone who loves you like that dude loves potatoes" etc. I reckon he thinks about spuds more than I think about bikes

Scrappy, but effective (I hope.)

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More bodging today.

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There’s so much knowledge on the allotment but very few seem prepared to give it out.

On the other hand you really don't need someone like this ...

https://youtu.be/OYiDcnrM0Mo

They do exist :)

Is it time to harvest leeks yet?

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