It is supposed to store well and has a mildly spicy flavor. The bulbs and cloves were slightly smaller than the German Extra Hardy, yielding 45 cloves from a half pound. The beds were prepared by weeding them and adding a generous amount of compost, then marking the squares.
The Chesnok Red was planted 9 per square foot, the normal recommended spacing. Given the size of the German Extra Hardy bulbs, I planted it at 6 per square foot. Holes were made with a dibble and the cloves pushed down a couple of inches. The beds were then mulched lightly with chopped straw and watered. I had to get these in now because we are facing a lot of rainy weather in the next few days.
As a last minute decision, I also chose to try growing shallots. At dollars per pound at the markets, shallots can theoretically yield a valuable crop, not to mention the enjoyment from having a nice stash of shallots to call on as needed.
Of course, I was late in making this decision so many suppliers were sold out. The bulbs I received were very large, compound bulbs. You have to feel under the skin for seams indicating multiple bulbs and break them apart before planting. A pound yielded 21 good sized bulbs ready for planting. Again, the beds were prepared with compost. Usual spacing is 4 per square foot. The bulbs are planted to a depth of about two thirds the length of the bulb, with the top third sticking out.
Shallots do not like to be completely buried and may rot. I planted 4 per square in 5 squares, and selected the largest bulb I received to have its own square. Since they multiply at about a ratio, 20 bulbs should give me bulbs at harvest, or about 5 pounds of shallots.
Happy Gardening in !!! Latest topics. Search SFG Forum. Quite a bit of difference. Clyde the Guide. Like Dislike. I did 5 per sq. I got good growth and nice bulbs with that spacing. The keeping of bees, for instance. The shallots bulbs cloves??
I just put in went 5 to a square. When I transplanted babies from seed it was more like 16 per square and they grew just fine. Hi Wag. Shallot spacing.
Email Save Comment 4. Sort by: Oldest. Newest Oldest. Like Save. Astraea, just Google what is x deg C Links will also come up with whole conversion charts. There is a formula but I can never remember it - too lazy to try, especially when Google make it so easy. Going from one day to 60 the next is a huge jump and one that does make people ill. You have to tick that box every time you save a photo, it isn't something you can preset unfortunately and several times I have been in a hurry and forgotten to do it.
Love that fish border, that is very me because I love a beach theme. There is something about it that looks a bit period too, it isn't trendy modern.
The blue in the fish is the accent colour I went for in my ensuite and the new towels go with it. I would have liked a border in one way but you buy them by the tile here which can work out extremely expensive, especially one like that which seems to have 3 rows of tiles. Not sure though if a border is a keeper for me, I love them, but I do get over things quickly and I would worry it would date the bathroom too quickly.
When I first started my ideasbook for the bathrooms, I put every photo I saw of every little thing I liked in it till I ended up with dozens of similar photos. Every week I went through and deleted things that were too similar or I realised I didn't want. It took me months to really start to get down to just what I wanted and then of course I had to go to the shops and see what was available and then come back to find things similar to what I had seen in the shops.
It was funny though, in the end I ended up going so simple, I decided to be creative with the things I can change out often or as the mood takes me. I am so happy with the end result now, which is basically an off white bathroom that always looks clean and sparkling and I enjoy keeping clean because it looks so good. That has actually rubbed off on my attitude to the rest of the house. Originally I always said I could decorate 10 homes because of all the styles and colours, I just couldn't make up my mind, but now I have started I have come to realise that the primary consideration is the aspect and light in a room and what the room needs to deal with issues there.
The rooms that have the biggest issues are the ones that have then influenced the rest of the house for balance and flow and in my mind, everything is coming to gether well, I am getting the end result I want.
Hope I might find my battery charger this week when I clean up the two spare bedrooms so I can put some photos up for you all. Darzy - can you get photos printed in round or oval or do you have to cut them? Never seen that here, but I have so much equipment to do things, I don't need to bother too much. I do all my journalling on normal A 4 paper. You can get acid free in this, but I don't worry as I don't put it over my photos and the plastic protects opposite pages.
Don't forget too, you can add printing to your photos before printing them out. I've done that a few times for a bit of humour. For example, one time Miss 6 was at Malibu Pier surrounded by seagulls and she just happened to be pointing in one photo I think trying to tell the seagulls what to do so across the photo from her hand I put Another time they were in Las Vegas and were looking at a super stretched stretch limo. Miss 6 just happened to have her hand on her hip so I just had to add "Where has that driver gone NOW".
Do you have a paper guillotine? You might need one to crop photos if necessary or cut things out, especially the journalling. I'm thinking maybe Michaels might be a place you could pick one up fairly cheaply, you can get small ones just for scrapbooking that take a 6 x 4 photo.
Make sure you get a repositionable one - some are sudden death and once stuck can't be removed. Trust me, you will make mistakes. I still can't get things right the first time. You can also get tiny brads that I like to use sometimes to attach journalling just to jazz it up a bit - I can spend a day just doing one page, but you won't have time for that.
There are gel pens you can get that are acid free and come in many colours too. You can also get glitter and gold and silver. Don't use them much as my writing is going downhill so I prefer to print everything and a lot of the fonts look like running writing anyway.
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