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Cheers for the link to the sutton website and the tip! Is there anything else that you would recommend me plant which would be good for this time of year or in the autumn?
Sutton catalogue is free when you request from site, thay have seeds to be planted now.
Amazing I will get on to that right away!
BBC Gardeners World..sign up for newsletter they’ll tell you when plants go in/things to do etc.
My runner beans are looking poorly/yellow, I’ve tried liver salts [nitrate] from the allotments shop, rain washing it away any thought?
Mine are a little yellow too and have been slow to start climbing. I think it’s due to the prevalence of cool winds and some relatively cold nights over the last month or so. Runner Beans are notorious for disliking chill and only really thrive once the dog-days of July arrive. Did you germinate yours in a greenhouse then plant them out? This too can shock them, so I sow mine direct into the soil in late May
Epsom (liver) Salts are Magnesium Sulphate so don’t contain Nitrate. A foliar feed of a general fertilizer wouldn’t hurt (Miracle Gro or somesuch) but I expect they’ll recover anyway
Don’t be tempted into watering them as they don’t appreciate it until mature and in full bloom. They should be left alone, allowing the roots to sink deeply into the soil
I’ll update how mine get on in due course, if you’d like to do the same
Did you germinate yours in a greenhouse then plant them out? This too can shock them, so I sow mine direct into the soil in late May
Hi Drone,
I sent for the plugs from Suttons,[no greenhouse] the type that do not need pollinating by bees, they went direct into ground as they were growing in box when delivered, they are climbing slowly, thanks for the info about not watering, no need here in S.Wales..LOL
Peas growing fine, something eating my beetroot… fly/bug?Not sure how the veggies are growing on my daughters plot, but they’ve got a damn fine scarecrow [that looks remarkably like my grandson, being as it’s wearing his clothes!]. I’ve been digging my front garden and have found a couple of very old glass bottles; think before the current houses were built there was a Victorian rubbish dump here; used to find a lot of clay pipes.
I’ll update how mine get on in due course, if you’d like to do the same
Runner Beans now healthy with dark green leaves, have climbed the 7ft to the top of the canes and have started to flower profusely. First beans expected in 10 days or so. Best eaten young when no longer than 6 inches
Hope yours too are now okay Deltaman
I’ve had a record crop of Broad Beans – 48lbs from a 22ft double row. Freezer is bulging
Very poor crop of soft fruit though – 4.5lbs of Blackcurrants, last year 24lbs. Frost in May did for them I reckon
That’s gardening
Runner Beans now healthy with dark green leaves, have climbed the 7ft to the top of the canes and have started to flower profusely. First beans expected in 10 days or so. Best eaten young when no longer than 6 inches
You’re lucky – the blessed slugs took all of mine.
Last year my sweat peas did nothing..this year they’re growing skywards most healthily but…no flowers, not even a suspicion of a bloom. What has gone wrong..fed them too much…not fed them enough? [ok, before anyone points it out this is an allotment thread and , no, I’m NOT expecting peas off them, but they are cottage gardeny flowers which are allotmenty, if you get my drift]
Runner beans now reaching for the sky!.Peas coming along, almost ready, Blueberries scoffed, late spuds looking good, May be having Chickens [again] no trouble with rats my mate has three terriers.
The Cricket pitch in the back garden has been retired due to my better half having the notion to put some decking down over the bowlers run ups with a good foot drop to the grass, it’s game over.
So we have another bright idea about using the area of grass to start growing a few carrots or runner beans. Start with a small area and see how it goes. The trouble is neither of us are what you would call green fingered(yet) so any advice or any links to good website for beginners would be useful.
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Its a sad day when women have these ideas:
"There’s a breathless hush in the Close to-night
Ten to make and the match to win
A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
An hour to play and the last man in.
And it’s not for the sake of a ribboned coat,
Or the selfish hope of a season’s fame,
But his captain’s hand on his shoulder smote
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"I wholeheartedly agree with you threenaps.
To be fair to the wicked witch
the concert slabs which made up the run up were a little bit of a health and safety hazard as some were loose and a friend of ours done her ankle going for a caught and bowled.So far no progress has been made on the gardening side as were clueless however I can report the sunflowers which were planted next to the shed at the beginning of March look OK and are in phase 2 by the looks of things. I hope they don’t attracted the bumbles.
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Not really a great vegetable gardener myself, well not a brilliant gardener fullstop.
Easy to grow however,are Tomatoes and Runner Beans,you can get good crops over a period of time. You’ll need canes for support.
Nip out the side shoots on the tomato plants and when you get up to the 4th lot of flowers then you’ll have a good crop.
If you use herbs in your cooking,Rosemary is a good tough plant, it gets bigger as the years go on, low maintenance.
I guess if you can no longer play cricket in the garden you’ll just have to find a good patch of grass maybe near to a pub somewhere for a knockabout.
Two threads that may be of interest:
Thanks for those Drone, I’ll take a proper look at them some time in the week.
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Sunflowers look doomed. Not grown in ages and have been nibbled at…….
Reading through the threads Drone put up, inspiration from Moehat has me thinking of getting a bird table at least at worse if my alarm clock fails I will have the birds as backup.
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