The Cambourne Pygmy Vampires

The garlic that I planted earlier in the year has now died back so has reached it's ultimate size. However, on digging it up I found it was somewhat smaller than I was hoping for.



As you can see, rather than forming a bulb with a number of cloves in it, there is a single bulb of garlic making it perfect for banishing very small vampires. As I've not seen any of these on the allotments recently, they obviously are doing the trick ;-). Apparently the reason for there being a single bulb is that I planted these too late in the year so they didn't have enough time to grow before dying off. Next time they need to go in in the autumn.

The first row of early spuds also were ready for harvest so I dug them up, and baked one with some slices of the garlic on the top. Mmmmm..... cracking spuds grommit.



The courgettes that I planted only a couple of weeks ago are also coming on great guns.



The leeks also got replanted today in 6" deep holes which hopefully will make the bottom half of them white and the top half green.




And finally I harvested the first of my shallots and tied them up in dainty bunches along with the dwarf garlic. This should let them dry out and keep for longer.