Handsome Man - Prize Winning Scarecrow
Second Prize winning “Worried Wilfred” ( or “Handsome Man as he was called in the village scarecrow competition) was moved this week to the allotment to keep Aunt Sally (3rd prize)company on the adjoining plot.
He was designed and created by my granddaughter Lianna with help from my wife Joan and the rest of the family.
Here he is keeping a close watch on me whilst I lifted the Foremost early potatoes – 16Kg from around 25 plants. I needed the space and as all the foliage was dying I preferred to lift and store even with the rain rather let the slugs have them.
In the foreground are the Jersey Royals and just behind are the Solent and Albigensian garlics.
I planted up 10 Oarsman leeks given to me by Jane and was about to plant my main Musselburgh Leeks in the remaining section of the onion bed when I realised that it was not a good idea with the amount of rust on the garlic.
So I decided enough was enough and lifted all the remaining ones.
Shown here are 30 Solent Wight and 12 Albigensian. I already lifted 4 Albigensian and 15 Early purple earlier this month.
Armfuls of Garlic
Just to show the wonderful size here is a close up. I had many that were over 50mm across and I measured one of these at 63.3mm across.
Solent Wight
I keep a close check on these at this time of year. Every year so far I have lost a few with a touch of rot but have plenty anyway. I also found a couple of elephant garlic bulbils I planted had grown and produced their own.
So all in all a good year for the garlic.
