I’ve had the first batch of these lovely purple french beans. The runner beans are producing nicely. I’ve picked the last of the peas and broad beans. The courgettes and mini cucumbers keep coming, and my lovely neighbour gave me these great shallots and spring onions.
I’m guessing if the broad beans are all done, there’s no point keep the plants. They still look healthy but no new flowers. Or is there any chance they’ll have a second wind and start producing again?
I’m guessing if the broad beans are all done, there’s no point keep the plants. They still look healthy but no new flowers. Or is there any chance they’ll have a second wind and start producing again?
Sometimes they will produce new shoots from the roots if you cut them back to the ground but those rarely produce much. The cut tops are a great addition to the compost bin and roots usually left in the ground as it is reputed that they add nitrogen which can be used by follow-on crops.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Beetroot Boldor ... gorgeous and golden inside ... had some in a stirfry and we're having some grated with courgette as a sort of a salad with wholegrain mustard dressing. Great flavour
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well you know I was rueing my late start, well today have harvested a cucumber, two mini cucumbers, four french beans🤨 ,a handful of red spring onions and 6 courgettes. Funny how fast things grow.😄
I was really late getting everything started this year. I kept waiting for the monsoon rain followed by the Beast from the East to finish. There wasn't much point in planting or sowing in those conditions. However, as above, everything is catching up now and I am picking the currants and cropping cucumbers etc. Patience is what we gardeners need, also to work to current conditions.
I had a friend who insisted on sowing his tomato seed just after Christmas for the kudos of having the first tomatoes. The seedlings would sit in his unheated greenhouse, going blue with cold. He never understood why my plants, sown in April sometimes, ended up cropping at the same time as his.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Beetroot Boldor ... gorgeous and golden inside ... had some in a stirfry and we're having some grated with courgette as a sort of a salad with wholegrain mustard dressing.
Great flavour
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was really late getting everything started this year. I kept waiting for the monsoon rain followed by the Beast from the East to finish. There wasn't much point in planting or sowing in those conditions. However, as above, everything is catching up now and I am picking the currants and cropping cucumbers etc. Patience is what we gardeners need, also to work to current conditions.
I had a friend who insisted on sowing his tomato seed just after Christmas for the kudos of having the first tomatoes. The seedlings would sit in his unheated greenhouse, going blue with cold. He never understood why my plants, sown in April sometimes, ended up cropping at the same time as his.