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allanaI've just been out in the garden planting garlic :D
They may never grow--supermarket garlic is apparently unreliable as compared to the stuff you get from garden centres, but then they would say that, wouldn't they?--but I shall have at least tried.
Dave bought me a copy of Jamie At Home, which walks a fine line between being a cookbook and a gardening manual, and now I find myself eyeing up the garden and wondering where I can put plants.
I doubt I ever will. I still get mildly freaked out at the prospect of walking over crickets--wtf are crickets doing in England, anyway?--to get to the bottom of the garden :P I'm a bit of a wildlife wimp.
Still, it's nice to dream... In my dream garden there is a big rhubarb crown, leeks, onions, a big patch of squash/pumpkins, and plenty of potatoes. I've already got plums and apples and since all my strawberries got eaten by birds last year I'm not enthused to plant any more.
But anyway, garlic! Hopefully in six months time I'll be busily braiding bulbs of garlic together.
They may never grow--supermarket garlic is apparently unreliable as compared to the stuff you get from garden centres, but then they would say that, wouldn't they?--but I shall have at least tried.
Dave bought me a copy of Jamie At Home, which walks a fine line between being a cookbook and a gardening manual, and now I find myself eyeing up the garden and wondering where I can put plants.
I doubt I ever will. I still get mildly freaked out at the prospect of walking over crickets--wtf are crickets doing in England, anyway?--to get to the bottom of the garden :P I'm a bit of a wildlife wimp.
Still, it's nice to dream... In my dream garden there is a big rhubarb crown, leeks, onions, a big patch of squash/pumpkins, and plenty of potatoes. I've already got plums and apples and since all my strawberries got eaten by birds last year I'm not enthused to plant any more.
But anyway, garlic! Hopefully in six months time I'll be busily braiding bulbs of garlic together.
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Date: 2008-01-23 02:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-23 03:07 pm (UTC)Still, the cold wet winter has probably killed them all off!
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Date: 2008-01-23 03:30 pm (UTC)[I heart garlic]
I would love to have a garden but between the poor soil and all the assorted wildlife, none of it would ever make it. I've considered container gardening on the porch...hmmmm...[makes notes]
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Date: 2008-01-23 04:56 pm (UTC)You can grow just about anything in containers though!