Garlic in, and a lesson about spacing

Forty cloves went in along the east fence on Saturday. Last year I put them about 10 cm apart and most of the heads came out small, so this time it is 15 cm in the row and a bit more between rows.

I only used the big outer cloves from the heads I kept back in July. The small inner ones went to the kitchen. Someone told me years ago that a big clove makes a big bulb, and here it has been roughly true.

Pointy end up, about two knuckles deep, then a thin layer of straw. The hens will try to scratch the straw away, so an old fence panel is leaning over the row until the shoots are up.