The end of the year!

I thought there was not much to do at the moment but my neighbours have been talking about digging up their carrots! I'm not sure why, I was sure that they would be alright over the winter and that I can dig them as I require them. I have left mine in so I will see, they are getting to a good size now. Whilst digging up some carrots the other day I noticed that some garlic were sprouting, these are garlic that I planted last spring and which did nothing over the summer! It reminded me that I promised myself to plant my garlic earlier this year. I checked the book and it said autumn sowing!! It is only a week into winter so I have sowed today and hope that I am in time this year. When I went to the iron-monger I noticed that they are selling bags of garlic for sowing, so I think I have got the time right.
Some of the onions that did nothing over the summer are sprouting as well, I'm sure it is still too early to sow onion sets but I will watch and see what happens. My leeks are really big now I need to start eating them seriously!!