Produce that grows below the ground, like Jerusalem artichokes, carrots, potatoes and of course garlic always generate that feeling of expectation and excitement as you never quite know what lies beneath the soil!!
Well this time of year is garlic time and this week ours was ready to be pulled. Garlic can always be a little misleading as on the surface the remaining leafy grow looks tired, dead and spent. As I put my fork in the ground I didn't expect to reveal any significant bulbs at all, as the plants had had know care or attention at all, but much to my delight this is what I found...
The biggest garlic bulbs we have ever grown!! Perfect white bulbs with bulbous cloves - just amazing and there wasn't just one there was 100% success rate...
All the bulbs were the same and it was hard to find a small one amongst them - almost the size of a plastic plant label across, I gave them pride of place in the polytunnel to dry.
Just can't wait to try them! :o)
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