It was time to get out and get that garlic in the ground. The weather went back to gloomy and overcast… but I only got misted on rather than rained on really.
Right now, its midnight and the rain is coming back steadily. Communities are being evacuated, cows are washing up on beaches, and rivers are swollen to several times their size. A real testing time for little Tasmania!
Anyway, I raked out the area to make the surface a bit more even
I find it easier to go along and poke holes in the ground where I want the garlic to go first.
When I plant my garlic I leave a tiny bit of the top poking out
I was able to fit in 135 plants! I guess that will have to do me for this year.
I am listening to the rain and hoping it won’t go too crazy as going back to the vegetable garden and trying to recover 135 cloves of washed away garlic would be tedious.
I noticed that the couple of self seeded oca was dying off so decided to dig them up and see if anything worthy was in the ground
Enough for the dinner plate tonight and some to save and hopefully plant later this year.
It belongs to the oxalis family. I hadn’t heard of them before coming here. they are nice baked in a bit of olive oil and garlic salt. Maybe next season if I deliberately plant them AND take care of them I will get bigger tubers.
My naughty chickens were stalking the broccoli again!
Halfway though planting my garlic THREE of them flew back over into this patch again! I tried to scare them out but it seems its ok to fly in but no idea how to fly out again! One panicked and got caught in the bird netting! I was worried she would injure herself! I finally got her and un-netted her. The bonus being I got to give her a good long cuddle! She was surprisingly really quiet in my arms and her feathers are silky soft! Lucky me!
Then off to the hothouse! Plenty of water in the rain barrels to give everything a nice long drink
Still lots of cucumbers!
Tomatoes are slowly ripening
The chillies are ripening and reflowering all over the place!
We got some succulent cuttings a week or two ago – supposedly for the path that just got washed away… they have produced roots really quickly
And lastly, the broccoli in the hot house is really charging along!
That’s all from me… I am just sitting here listening to that rain get heavier!!
Have a wonderful day
Cheers
I’ve never heard of oca. I’m familiar with the oxalis family and when I first saw the picture it reminded me of bittersweet. I’ll have to check into this!
With all the rain you’re getting perhaps some sort of cover over the garlic bed would help keep the soil in place and prevent the garlic from washing away
Its new to us too (Oca) … But I like it!
The garlic survived the night – the garden bed actually looked totally fine! I was considering a cover if the weather went south again – you are probably right. Wouldn’t hurt to protect it a little if we get a repeat of Sundays weather!!