June the first month of summer is just about at the end! Summer harvests are in earnest. But we need to have things in place for the autumn and winter months to harvest.
June has seen temperatures warming up and long warm days. In this video part 2 we harvest our garlic and shallots and replace them by planting swede and leeks.
Welcome to the No Dig Norfolk Gardener and our no dig/no till garden where we grow vegetables. We garden in zone 9a. Although we grow our veg from our back garden it is very much set up like allotment gardening UK – allotment life. Our passion is vegetable gardening, bigger harvests and no dig gardening. You will see how growing your own food is so easy.
So it’s all change in plot 3 part 2
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I podded a pea while I was down the allotment the other day, there were teeny tiny maggots in it, Its kind of put me off them! Is that normal? (Maggots not me being put off them lol) Last year was the first year I grew elephant garlic, some of the bulbils popped up so I transplanted them in to this years garlic bead. They have formed mono cloves, so I'll put them back in in October and they should split!
Thanks for the leek tips. I planted some a couple weeks ago for the first time from where I harvested my garlic. I think I went fairly deep but probably not 6". And I saw somewhere else about watering them in so I think I did that although it's hard to remember now. Anyway I'll see how they do and if they aren't long and white I'll know what I did wrong for next year.
😂😂 like kids in a candy shop. Quality control 🤭🤭. Great harvests and update, have a super weekend, Ali 🌞🇨🇦
For the elephant garlic, keep the largest cloves for replanting as you would with ordinary garlic.
The tiny bulbils on the outside of the bulbs can be planted if you want to try and increase your elephant garlic crop, but as you say it will take 2 years for them to get up to size. (i always seem to struggle to get the bulbils to grow though).
Hi Barrie we mostly get 9 with alderman but have had a few with 10 but never 12
We must be ahead of you Barrie in midlands. Our garlic has been up 2 weeks and we harvested the elephant garlic today and they starting to split so could have come up a week ago I reckon. Our strawberries nearly finished and have frozen and made jam and eaten tons. It was a bountiful crop this year. Peas nearly finished now aswell we have had loads and frozen a few. We have also finished the broad beans and frozen some but we are in the middle of our field beans another bountiful crop. It’s been a good year for all of those. We have finished all our first early potatoes and just starting on the charlottes.
Our shallots not done great and most of our red over wintered onions went to seed so had to pull them up. So you win some and lose some
Yes if you replant the little corms then in 2 years you get big garlic so if you do it every year you will always have elephant garlic never need to buy again well apart from this next year then that makes up the 2 years.
I planted my leeks today 👍
We aren’t covering much at all this year as we have mostly polyculture beds so lots of different things together so we shall see how it goes.
I put my swede in the other day in 2 different places. One lot got eaten the others didn’t. The next day I caught 3 little fledgling thrushes on the bed pecking and so I think they were the culprits. I don’t mind cos I havnt seen thrushes for years. The others are still going strong👍
Always enjoy your videos Barrie and Mrs W
Leek moth has been on out Norwich allotments for many years now – however, the damage they do can be coped with if steps are taken early. Basically once the damage can be seen on the leek the plant needs to be cut right off leaving an inch stub at the bottom. It seems like a drastic measure but if the plants are strong and growing well it is amazing just how quickly they do recover. It seems that just one egg is laid on each leek the moth I guess moving from one leek to the next. Once all the affected tops are removed there is no further problem.
Of course keeping the moth off in the first place saves doing any of that..
Another fantastic video!I'm just harvesting my peas now (Alderman) they are SO sweet & tender! Do you freeze yours? Also when will you be harvesting your onions & charlotte spuds & what will you be replacing them with?
Thanks for the vid. guys! First time planting elephant garlic as well and only got one single giant bulb ..I have no idea how to save from that lol. But it is good used a lot of it so far. 👍
The end when I saw the white butterfly was gold lol.. I do the same exact thing always chasing after them trying to swat them down 😂 my neighbors probably think I’m crazy haha!
Mr Charles multisows leeks.
You did well with your garlic. I pulled mine this morning and was unwhelmed with them. Picardy and Mersley Wight. Still enough for the year but no really big ones. Because of your videos about Shallots we are going to try them next year. They seem so small but if they have strong flavour and are so prolific then that suits us.
good show, cheers Barry
Thank you Barry and Mrs W. I only grew swede once and it was a complete failure so haven't tried again. I grew broad beans for the first time this year and had a reasonable harvest ( no black fly thank heavens). How many beans should i expect from a pod of the variety 'The Sutton'.There were only 4 beans per pod. I have cleared them today ready to plant my kalettes, which is my my favourite brassica apart from Romanesco, which I have never succeeded with. I wonder what i do wrong? Luckily a local farm grows it.I need to buy some blue water pipe and some more mesh- it seems to me that more and more of the veg I grow needs netting to protect them from various pests. Mesh netting is so useful! Have a fabulous gardening week 🙂 x PS I actually left one of my garlic ( Provence) in the ground last year and this year lots of bulbils appeared on the surface of my soil- I thought they were over wintering soring onions and pulled them for my husband's salad. It was so funny when he sat down to eat his salad, remarking ' Crikey, these spring onions are a bit strong' . When I smelled them I realised what they were. I've never had that happen before. Interesting!
Hi Barry. Great crop of garlic. Very impressed. I intend pulling mine later this week. I was interested that you were following the garlic with leeks. I have always waited for space to appear where the spuds are to plant my leeks as I was concerned about crop rotation. I didn't think leeks following garlic would be a good idea due to disease or am I worrying unnecessarily? I was also nterested in the mesh you were using. I need to buy some more and wondered where you get yours from and what size mesh you go for? I see there is ultra fine which has much smaller holes but is very expensive. Just wondered what you would recommend.. Thanks again. Trevor.