This summer the garlic leaves dried off so quickly that by the time I went to harvest them they had disappeared and I wasn't able to find all of the bulbs. Some of those lost have sprouted and on Sunday I dug them up and put the cloves into next year's onion bed. I covered them with a sturdy metal mesh I have to protect them from the local cats. This morning I went out to take a photo. You can see the mesh but not the garlic. The big leaves you can see are foxgloves - always keen to grow in my vegetable beds rather than the flower beds!
The picture below is of one of my January Kings. I am supposed to protect the heart from the winter weather by tying the outside leaves around it. What heart?! I hope the cabbages keep growing over the winter, otherwise they will have been a complete waste of time!
I am trying to get more than just a few leeks to harvest over the winter. The Organic Gardening Catalogue has "flower sprouts", a cross between curly kale and brussel sprouts which I plan to try. I'm getting old if the memories of curly kale we ate every winter through my childhood have faded so much I am prepared to grow something associated with it!
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