Saturday, March 14, 2009

Australian Garlic

I have been keeping an eye out in the supermarkets and greengrocers for Australian Grown Garlic, but it's always from China or other overseas countries.

Thursday morning I woke up to find an email from Green Harvest letting me know their autumn supply of seed potatoes and garlic are now available. Thank goodness! I ordered some Italian White Garlic, Pontiac Potatoes and seeds of Moon & Stars Watermelon and Lockyer Gold onions, then went out into the veggie patch.

Moon Planting: March 11th to 18th Full Moon phase.
Time to plant root vegetables so I put in a metre long row each of Baby Carrots and Detroit Red Beetroot seeds. I cheated and used Yates Seed Tapes so they'll be evenly spaced when they come up. Or should I say, if they come up! Unfortunately I don't have much success with small seeds.

Yesterday I was in a Woolworths and spotted some Australian Grown Garlic. That'd be right, now that I have ordered it online it is suddenly available in the supermarket! I bought some anyway, and told a young chap in the veg department to thank his manager for stocking it.


I checked the letter box when I got home from shopping and there was my parcel from Green Harvest. What great service :-)


Later today I will be planting garlic and onions. I will have to chit the potatoes.

Have a great weekend.

--
BevB

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Bev...Great shopping enjoy your garlic and spuds you have done real well..Love Meg x

BevB said...

Thanks Mary :-)
I hope you are having a good weekend.