Outdoorgirl, I am so sorry for you, after all the work you must have done to get the beans this far...but tomorrow is another day (to quote from 'Gone with the Wind)
Good growing season here in the NW. I started on a new half allotment in Feb, stuff has grown far better than in the back garden. I've just had a bumper crop of cherry plums and the tree hadn't produced anything for a couple of years.
We had blight but my spuds were 1st and 2nd earlies so despite this did well. Pea's were nibbled by pea weevil but went on to give a good crop. Courgettes doing well and for the first time gourds are doing well, I've loads of swan shaped ones.
Only things which stand out as not doing well were parsnips, they took that long to come up I couldn't see parsnips for weeds. Mooli didn't do well either. There could be more stuff but the good out shone the bad.
Toms have been slow to go red in the GH but the cues, chillies and aubergines are doing well.
It's also been a good year for slow worms, Ive seen some at the bottom of my plot and although I've had some slug damage to plants not as much as in the back garden. There's been lots of ladybirds here too and little blackfly.
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Spoke too soon - the wind has destroyed my beans. Huge gusts this afternoon gradually destroyed the frame and dumped them onto my leeks. Fed up.
Outdoorgirl, I am so sorry for you, after all the work you must have done to get the beans this far...but tomorrow is another day (to quote from 'Gone with the Wind
)
Good growing season here in the NW. I started on a new half allotment in Feb, stuff has grown far better than in the back garden. I've just had a bumper crop of cherry plums and the tree hadn't produced anything for a couple of years.
We had blight but my spuds were 1st and 2nd earlies so despite this did well. Pea's were nibbled by pea weevil but went on to give a good crop. Courgettes doing well and for the first time gourds are doing well, I've loads of swan shaped ones.
Only things which stand out as not doing well were parsnips, they took that long to come up I couldn't see parsnips for weeds. Mooli didn't do well either. There could be more stuff but the good out shone the bad.
Toms have been slow to go red in the GH but the cues, chillies and aubergines are doing well.
It's also been a good year for slow worms, Ive seen some at the bottom of my plot and although I've had some slug damage to plants not as much as in the back garden. There's been lots of ladybirds here too and little blackfly.