Today is Bean day. The wife and I made good use of the halt in the rain to get 2 hours down the allotment, so we got the bean frames up and the beans in.
The past Sunday we dug the bed over ready for the beans and put loads of manure on plus it got a good load in the autumn too. The ground wasn’t ideal as it was very muddy but today is the only day we could get down the plot so we had to make do.
This year I haven’t grown any runner beans from seed I am simply going to pop the seed in when the bamboo structure is erected, not sure what the results will be like but that’s part of the fun of the allotment isn’t it?
I have put in 3 rows of French Beans in Blue Lake,
Daneile and one don’t know the name of, and I have also put in a row of Borlotti
beans which I really enjoyed last year. I
have never grown Blue Lake before but have read that it’s a good cropper and
very good for eating so fingers crossed it will be tasty I will keep you posted
Last year when I erected the bamboo structures I didn’t put any side braces on and when it got windy they decided to fold in on them self’s so this year after watching GW I saw Monty put side supports on his structures so I have done the same and it really has made the whole structure very secure. Something I shall do from now on with any structure I erect.
An update on the potatoes after using the hay to earth up
they have shot up and are looking really healthy (although I think this weather
has had a hand in that) won’t be long now till the first earlies will be ready
for digging up.
Happy gardening everyone…
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