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Planting of garlic and onions Autumn 2018

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Some notes and photos of the locations and varieties of various onion and garlic seeds planted on 29 September 2018, obtained by seed suppliers Marshalls . Elephant garlic Planted right at the front of my plot, next to existing parsnip plants. Using a standard sized dibber tool to create the holes in which to insert the garlic - these holes had to be widened a little by wiggling it around as these cloves are pretty huge: Normal garlic Next to be planted were normal garlic cloves of type Provenance Wight: This occupied I think a full row, followed by three more cloves left over: And then followed further planting of another make Carcassonne Wight straight after these: Onion sets A number of rows of onions (Shakespeare) to follow Followed by more rows of red onion sets, Red Cross. And that is it for the Autumn planting of onions and garlic: elephant sets at the front behind the parsnips, garlic a bit further back in front of