Beaten By The Rain

This is the first of our onion harvest....

and our garlic...

Here you can see the garlic braids. They have since been moved inside 

which we managed to get in before the rain on Monday night. If you wander over to Linda's, you will see rule no. 4 tells you to pick the garlic ( or onions ) in the right weather i.e. when it's dry. But we missed that opportunity and had to harvest it in the rain. It has rained for 4 days now and if we'd left them in the ground they would certainly have rotted sooooo, Mark and his daughter, Rebecca, have been working tirelessly to get the crop in, and hanging it to dry.

This is the last of the garlic. Tomorrow it will be moved into the movie room in front of the fans . Once dry Mark and Rebecca will clean it up and braid it. ( a messy job, they are both covered in mud)

Here's the bulk of it hanging in front of the fans. The onions are bunched and the garlic has been braided.

Not an ideal situation. We have our fingers crossed that it will dry well!