lettuce and garlic over winter

hi all,

for winter, i've bunged some lettuce and some garlic in my grow bags. i'm growing them together from some companion planting reccomendations. is this stupid?
i put four lettuce around 1 garlic in each bag.
i'm making some cloches for the lettuce at the moment. should i also be giving them plant food/fertilizer at this stage?
any other reccomendations very welcome.

best,
David

 

"Bunging" stuff in, is never as good as planting... with love!

 

my garlic is growing quite nicely in my coldframes,
planted end sep/oct. kevin.

 

I was under the impression you can overwinter garlic along with shallots.

 

Garlic is fine outdoors as long as it's not sitting in a puddle!

When i was in the West of Scotland, and it was far too wet, I'd get it going in January in 3 or 4 inch pots in a cool greenhouse, and plant it out at Easter time.... and got a great crop

 

I have mine with shallots out in a gritted and sanded and composted veg bed, covered over with a netted canopy to keep my cats off them-in fact it`s probably more comfy than my own bed now I think about it, so thanks Quercus, it`s my first go at doing veggies properly.

 

I am interested in thsi I have now got a nic eraised veggie bed with rescyled slabs from our garden.

I have winter cabbage ,cauli ,brocoli,spring onions allunder fleece and forgot to lift lettuce its still growing under fleece.

Not grown garic before would like to try and 2009 more veggies.

 

Scotkat.. garlic is easy.... I got good crops in Argyll

The books often say don't use supermarket ones, but i never had problems, but if you can get British grown ones, they will be a more suitable variety for Northern areas.

Get them in Anytime before spring, and as I said, not in a puddle, but keep well watered in the spring/summer. when you first plant, keep an eye on them, they sometimes (like onion sets) pop out of the ground before the roots get going, (or the birds tug them out!)

You should be harvesting and drying off in August, when the leaves have died down, but before that they are great roasted whole, and the middles turn into a fabulous sweet fresh garlicky mush!

Store them tied up in bunches, hanging in the kitchen... mine keep almost a year.