Celebrating Winter Solstice, Belatedly

I confess, I was two days late planting my garlic and shallots here at Struan Farm. They are meant to be planted on the shortest day of the year in June and harvested on the longest in December. The planets and stars were aligned for Matariki but I was not. Shall we just say "better late than never" and move on? Let's. 

Several rows of garlic and one+ of shallots have been popped into the well fertilised soil (sheep manure and blood and bone). I discovered some of last season's shallots sprouting so decided to pop those into the ground to see what happens too.