Oh-oh! It was all going so well too!
I’ve had half a dozen BROAD BEANS (crimson flowered) growing in mum’s garden in order that I’d get pure seed from them for next year, but I had a phone call from her yesterday querying what she should do with ‘all these black pods that look like they’ve split open…’
I hot-footed it round there in the dusk, & managed to salvage just two pods – that’s precisely six beans for next year. Boo!
Better news at the Hill tonight (Hazel 5, caterpillars 0) where I cut off all the potato haulms in preparation for digging them up at the weekend, & I picked a cycle basket full of FRENCH BEANS (barlotto de fuoco), & a few RUNNER BEANS (reg-next-plot) to have for tea.
I also picked a couple of TOMATO (bloody butcher) – none of these will make it home at this rate.
Unusually, neighbour Ted was also at the Hill this evening – he was thinning out some lettuce & he told me that they’d had their first sweetcorn this week – ours are not quite ready, but perhaps will be in the next week or so along with a second row of very healthy looking carrots, so it’s still good news overall…
I’ve had half a dozen BROAD BEANS (crimson flowered) growing in mum’s garden in order that I’d get pure seed from them for next year, but I had a phone call from her yesterday querying what she should do with ‘all these black pods that look like they’ve split open…’
I hot-footed it round there in the dusk, & managed to salvage just two pods – that’s precisely six beans for next year. Boo!
Better news at the Hill tonight (Hazel 5, caterpillars 0) where I cut off all the potato haulms in preparation for digging them up at the weekend, & I picked a cycle basket full of FRENCH BEANS (barlotto de fuoco), & a few RUNNER BEANS (reg-next-plot) to have for tea.I also picked a couple of TOMATO (bloody butcher) – none of these will make it home at this rate.
Unusually, neighbour Ted was also at the Hill this evening – he was thinning out some lettuce & he told me that they’d had their first sweetcorn this week – ours are not quite ready, but perhaps will be in the next week or so along with a second row of very healthy looking carrots, so it’s still good news overall…
Panic not - I've got spare crimson flowered if you'd like some Hazel.
ReplyDeleteAnnoying though isn't it? My Latvian peas had started to split - a couple of days earlier they were soggy from all the rain! I gathered all that were left and it's a HUGE quantity. It looked worse than it was.
Oh thank you, Flum! I would love some if you have spare - that's very kind!
ReplyDeleteTypically, the 'work-a-day' broadies that I've left to go to seed at the Hill are no where near splitting, so I thought I had plenty of time...
Some of the beans must be in the ground, which should come up next year, but I don't rate their chances as mum's a bit of a demon with the hoe!