It was Volunteer Saturday at Turriefield and I always ask if there is anything I could do which didn’t involve my back, as it’s still not great. Mostly they say no, as it is digging and weeding and stuff that would kill me.
Anyway, garlic was mentioned and I arrived to a wheelbarrow full of drying garlic bulbs. I was told to cut off the dried leaves and trim the roots and left to get on with it while everyone else went outside to work.
A stool was brought, and I positioned myself with the least amount of stretching or bending and got to work.
First, I just cut off the roots, the dried leaves/stalk and then put them into a small crate, ready for my next stage – sorting.
Once the small crate was full, I sorted the bulbs into Grot, Small, Medium and Large bulbs.
Two and a quarter hours later, plus some help at the end to get them all finished, the job was done. I felt immensely pleased with myself. There was a lot of garlic.
And, in another world, I took this photo yesterday evening. Scary stuff.
Monster does look slightly perturbed in his photo! I laughed out loud when I saw it!!
He is an odd one.
I wonder what Monster thought of the strong smell of garlic when you got home ?
Not been near me! He is obvs a vampire.
Well done re the garlic – yum!
Are you sure Pepper and Ted didn’t manage to manipulate that photo of Monster to make him look evil so that he wouldn’t have so many fans? If not, I may be reconsidering my position (in my view) of No 1 Fan!
I just harvested 50 garlic bulbs from our community garden. I sat under a tree while cutting off excess foliage and enjoyed the beautiful weather while everybody else hauled wheelbarrows of perennial and shrub trimmings. Our veggies go to a nearby church food pantry.
It’s a comfortable job