From small things......

The garlic harvest back in summer was pretty disappointing. Each head seemed really small compared to previous years, and several I just tossed out as they were too small to do anything with. Now garlic planting time has rolled around again, and I have been keeping an eye out at the organic shop waiting for some decent-sized garlic to pop up to restart my stocks. Interestingly, it seems it wasn't just me that had problems this year - their garlic is just as small as mine was, in fact one of the (partially eaten) heads I have in the pantry is noticeably larger than the biggest-cloved specimens I was able to buy! So that one has been rescued from imminent eatery and four of its remaining cloves have been planted out today, along with three each from two I purchased. Fingers crossed for better growing conditions this year and a better result come January!