Pumpkin, Squash and French Beans
Sharing water, going slowly mad and harvesting squash. It's all go on the plot!
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Harvest Continues from Cucumbers to French Beans
Weed them and reap! Sorry about the pun. Some lovely Beurre De Rocquencort yellow French beans for the freezer
Blanching Beans and a Welcome Party on the Plot
Shlightly sozzled on the plot (hic)
Yet More Runner Beans, French Beans, Broad Beans
Yet more beans harvested!
Harvesting Runner Beans and Cucumbers
Illness has kept me away but managed a couple of hours today,
Harvesting, Blanching and Freezing Runner and French Beans
A weekend of harvesting and blanching and freezing. On Saturday we gathered a carrier bag of French beans, one of broad beans, some runner beans and yet more courgettes.
Yellow Mini Squash and Climbing French Beans
Where were those beans hiding yesterday? Anyway harvested those and then the yellow mini squashes that were fast becoming maxi squash! Laid them on the table to cure.
Salad Crops, Cauliflowers and Potatoes Harvesting
Harvest continues and the French beans discovered in hiding. Yet more courgettes - the yellow ones look really dramatic - and then I noticed a climbing French bean. Hiding beneath the leaves were about half a carrier bag full!
Harvest Starts, Horsetail or Marestail Returns
Harvest starts for real with beans and peas. Planting cabbages and rotovating. Can anything kill off horsetail?
Preparing for the Allotment Competition
Cometition preparation so weeding and tidy up time
Potatoes in Greenhouse a Failure
Greenhouse potatoes - nil points and a bit of work on plot 5. How not to grow potatoes in a greenhouse
Growbag Watering Pots and Top Tip for Beans
Rain, watering growbags and beans top tip.
Comfrey Cut for Potatoes and Failed Parsnips
Well the summer didn't last long, but I still got a couple of hours in.
Tomatoes Dry Under Cloche, French Beans from France
Having been away for 2 days in France I was straight down to the plot.
Planting Runner and French Beans plus Ben the Rat on the Plot
A new neighbour - Ben the rat on the allotment site and planting runner and French beans.
Runner Bean Tipis and Repaired Grow House
The weather changed from grey to lovely this afternoon so constructed some climbing bean supports
Beans Rotting in Wet Compost
The Great Bean Disaster and the Tomato Cull
Sowing Runner, French and Kenya Beans in Pots
Panic and build an ark!
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