Broadbeans and Potatoes
Clocks changed and the first day has been sunny, an early morning not quite so as it did…
Tag: broadbeans
More beans and no fruit cage
It must be the first day of the year where it has been cold but sunny, clear blue…
Beans and Cabbages
The other week I sowed broad beans direct in the ground at the plot while also sowing some…
Broad Beans Take Two
Sowed six direct in the ground and they all came up, unfortunately mice found them and nibbled off…
Broad beans and parsnips
In less than a week we have broad beans! Not quite ready to pick, infact only just showing…
Hailstones and sun
I thought it wise to wait until the afternoon when it said it would stop looking so miserable…
Hannah and leeks
The day before, I left (storm) Hannah alone at the plot while I transplanted seedlings into larger pots.…
Broad beans and radish
After sowing and putting outside undercover, one lot in the small plastic greenhouse and the other round the…
Seeds
Not much on the plot but lots of seed sowing at home, including: turnips calabrese peas cabbage Also…
Overwintering broad beans
A forecast of wind, rain and cold meant I wasn’t planning to do much, but it turned out…
Wind and rain
It did finally rain, for a whole day, which was nice. Then, during the night the wind and…
A small bit of rain
We nearly got through July without a spot of rain, parts of the country seemed to have been…
A life with no Water
We shall all surely die, it hasn’t rained for years (or maybe just days/weeks) and the prospect of…
Wigwams
Bamboo canes were hard to find, they had a Costa coffee shop but the first garden centre was…
Broad beans and seedlings
Broad beans planted in pots indoors over the last weeks have been wanting to be outside for for…
Sowing the seeds
It seems like it is the middle of summer, with temperatures that has got the Daily Mail all…
Uncovered
The plastic sheeting that has covered the plot since around Christmas time was fully removed today showing for…
Indoor Seedlings Progress
We have planted some seeds indoors and others under cover of fleece outside on the plot – see First…
Strawberries and sowing undercover
Rain all weekend but none of it ever came, resulting in quite pleasant weather and time spent both…