Vampires beware
If I was able to remember where I kept my allotment diary, I would note that on Friday 16th November I planted one of my three garlic bulbs. I put them in pots last year: they grew most successfully, liked it when they finally were planted out, seemed quite happy – but produced virtually no useable garlic at all. This year I am trying one half-row in the (cold, waterlogged) ground over winter, without very high hopes; I’ll put the other two bulbs out in the spring with fingers crossed.
I also have good intentions of planting broad beans to over-winter (but given that I haven’t done it yet this also may not happen).
A productive Saturday, though – not at the allotment but in the garden, which is now all tidied away for the winter. It looks uncharacteristically neat and the (one, small*) flowerbed is manured and everything. Maggie helped me plant tulips and I finally brought in the houseplants, which had been put out to get some air in about August but seem none the worse for a bit of frosting.
*digging out more beds and borders has been postponed again.