Last year we had missed the autumn planting time for garlic and so planted in spring, and we had a reasonable crop. This year we did a little trial, we planted in autumn, and spring, and by coincidence, some of the autumn planting got horse manure, the rest did not.
No surprise really, that the fertilized autumn planted garlic did the best – shown on the right of the the picture, whereas the spring unfed sowing (shown on the left ) was weedy. All autumn and fed from now on.
