Yes, it's been a while since the last post. I honestly haven't done much in the patch due to work commitments, but now it's easing off and more time for my vegetable garden can be achieved.
Today I firstly took a photo of the mess that built up over time. Yes it was true. I had some weeding to do and removed the old (some of) dead tomatoes and stakes that were. I then dug with my shovel into the soil which looked rather good ready for garlic, creamgold onion, and shallot seeds. The garlic cloves have been in my fridge for a good month so I hope that helps. The shortest day of the year past a week ago and I was in a rush to get those garlic cloves in. 54 in total. I dug in cow manure mix in the garlic bed to further enrich the soil. I could almost eat it. With the onions and shallot bed, I added nothing. I checked on the shallots I sowed 5 to 6 months back and without giving them any water (just when it rained) they are about 250mm (10 inches high). Not bad for doing little. Gave a good water in to all above and she'll be right for a while. Possibly mid this coming week I'll water again. There is rain and showers predicted tommorrow and the first half of this week. See how it pans out. I took some pics of the patch today, so take a look. As you can see, they aren't really a pretty sight. The last picture was taken pre-watering. The location of seeds - In the far background are the garlic (against the fence), In the middle is the Creamgold Onions, and in the front/bottom of the picture are the Shallots. I have to record that because the paper tags don't last long in the Australian weather, even in Winter, and having onions so close together, I will get mixed up on what's what. Till next time, Steve the Vegygardener.
