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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘beans’
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 – [...]
17 Sep
Eight Runner Beans Plants Too Much?
Our first harvest of runner beans took place a number of weeks ago. We are now under constant attack from beans, I suppose eight plants between just the two of us who eat beans is maybe a bit too much!
20 Aug
Beans and Snails
Notice here that the right-hand side has little growth whereas the rest is having a great time growing. This is the result of snails, loads of them all crawling up the right-hand side undetected.
19 Jun
Beans have a slow start
You can hardly see them, but there are a number of runner bean plants slowly growing here. I suppose that the ground is not really the best for beans here in that it is no great deep tretch dug months beforehand and filled with rotting compost like I did once do on the allotment. But [...]
9 Jun
Runner Beans at Last
Not much growing success with runner beans this year, all a bit strange. The ones I planted outside are either very small and not growing that fast or they are yet to show (a quick dig down shows the beans are starting to sprout). I planted a further three indoors and all three have come [...]
28 May
Bean Poles Erected!
Moved slightly along this year, still using the green and read poles from last. Ihave not had much luck with beans so far this year. Not many have actualy germinated which is a bummer as the seed may be last year’s that I am using but I expected to have a lot more success than [...]
