Tag Archives: Broad Beans

May 2017 Growing Update

Broad beans

This month saw our first broad beans of the year harvested.

What a turn around we’ve had in the weather this month! The arctic winds have subsided and for the last couple of weeks it’s been like summer. Plus a few times in the last week we’ve had rainfall at night followed by a sunny day, which has done wonders for our plants. We’ve been very busy this month in our garden and at the allotment, although we’re still behind schedule. We’ve also started harvesting, with our overwintered broad beans now yielding returns. It’s been another month where we’ve struggled to find time to get the jobs done that we wanted…

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March 2017 Growing Update

Tomato plants

Some of our young tomato plants enjoying the warm weather and longer days in their cold frame.

‘March winds and April showers bring forth the May flowers’, or so the old proverb goes. Well if this March is anything to go by, then May should be a floral delight! The winds that Storm Doris brought in, and Storm Ewan perpetuated, have died down, but never seem to have fully left us. But the days are now getting longer and spring is officially here. As of last weekend the clocks went forward which means it is still light when I get home from work. This week I have taken full advantage of this and I’ve been getting garden…

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