Autumn planting of Onion and Garlic

At last! I have completed my task of planting onions and garlic. I haven't had much of a chance to get to the allotment lately as I have been very busy. I have missed the allotment as it has the charm of lifting my spirits and recharging my energy levels! Even though it's hard physical work I come home feeling more awake than before I went. Anyway I went to Crews Hill Enfield and bought some Autumn planting white onion sets and Autumn planting French garlic bulbs. I had plenty of netting in the shed and a newly purchased dibber which I couldn't wait to try out. I had created a smaller bed to house the onions and garlic, and gave the soil a good dig over with some fresh compost. While my daughter separated the garlic bulbs I got to work planting the onion sets.

The dibber was a great purchase as I could measure the depth and spacing between the onions. Once my daughter had seperated the garlic I planted them also. Last spring I covered the planted onion sets over with netting but the netting was too low down and the birds manage to get their beaks through the net and pull the sets out. They didn't get away with the onions though as the netting was quite fine. So this Autumn I raised the netting up higher to prevent the birds doing this again.

Upon returning to the allotment a few days later I realised I needed to raise the centre of the netting up too as it was dipping down in the centre and some onions and garlic had been pulled out. I just stuck a cane with an old bottle ontop into the centre of the bed to raise it up higher. I'm hoping that this will do the trick.

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