It has been very wet and damp these last weeks and now the sun is much lower during the day the garden does not get that much sun. This means things will now be wet until the spring time and so I wonder how much more we will get out of the square foot garden [...]
Posts Tagged ‘beans’
26 Sep
Late Broad Beans
I never used to like broad beans, but now I think they are great both with skins on and without. When we had the allotment I would see them growing as one of the first plants for the year and I always missed the time to plant. We missed it again this time as the [...]
15 Aug
How are the winter seedlings doing?
After a lot of rain the winter seedlings are popping up all over the place. The turnips have come up and it that I was not too good at sowing just two seeds each time as I now have little clumps of them instead, they were very tiny seeds though. Not a problem as I [...]
9 Aug
Broad Beans and Onions
I have never tried growing during the winter period, so thought now would be a good time while the squares were starting to clear out. As well as turnips, I bought some Japanese onion seed and some broad bean seed off Ebay. At the same time I bought the seed potatoes for the winter harvest. [...]
3 Aug
Eating French Beans
We have taken a couple of pickings of our french beans this week. We have grown runner beans for years but never french beans which is silly as we have missed out. These beans are so much easier to prepare for cooking, no constant slicing with a bean slicer but instead just chop them up! [...]
29 Jul
Beans, Peas, and the attack of the Tomatoes
Despite the black fly which seems to be covering our garden like a blanket, these french beans are growing so well. I didn’t notice any beans yesterday and yet today it seems it is covered in them with a lot of them ready to be picked. We have never grown french beans before but it [...]
19 Jul
A couple of days of wind and rain
After a good month of blue skies, hot weather and sun sun sun… we had two or three days of rain and wind. The result is a sudden growth on everything and a bit of wind damage. The sweetcorn shows no signs of any corn inside, although I’m not fully sure when they are meant [...]
29 Jun
Supports
I did plan to do the supports like the book suggests, but time took over and after thinking that it will be a good two weeks until I have time to fully build the supports, it will be too late, the beans are already trying to escape! So I have used some of the bean [...]
29 Oct
Saving Beans
Beans, they are so easy to grow and so nice to eat. At the end of the growing you can save some seed for next year. You get all this then for nothing! It is all a bit silly really as we have enough beans here to plant a field of them next year, but [...]
22 Sep
Along Comes the Wind
The poles seem to sturdy when you put them in, and yet within not too long the wind manages to blow them over. There is a lot of weight in these beans and sweetpeas that are going up the wigwams, and put that against the wind coming straight off the sea over the road – [...]
