Moon phase: Week 3 (waning)
This weekend had a Gallic flavour: harvesting red onions on Saturday and preparing the garlic for storage on Sunday.
The onions are a bit small, but then they did go in late, and red onions in the shops are seldom large. It was also a bit early in the moon cycle for harvesting roots, but with rain forecast for the rest of the week, I didn't really have a choice :( Now they are drying on the slatted shelves in my conservatory, since outdoors is obviously not an option.
On Sunday I decided I was fed up of having a box of garlic "decorating" the living room, so I set about making it into plaits and grappes. However the hardnecks were a bit too stiff for making grappes; either I left them to dry too long, or I'm doing something else wrong! Plaiting the softnecks was fiddly but rather satisfying - just a pity that the softnecks all turned out rather small, so my plaits are miniature ones :)