I found a few old bamboo canes and tied them in .
Beans do prefer hazel sticks / poles . They wind around them and climb better than on slippery bamboo canes .....but since this is all I could find today they'll just have to do .
All planted up and I,ll sow a few more for spares in the solar shed .( Solar Shed with the big sloping window ) Last year something came along and cut through the stems of my beans , as if with scissors . It was very disheartening after so much work . All the dead bits lying on the ground ....
I actually cried ....
So anyway , some you win , some you lose . That's just the way it is with growing vegetables ...but we pick ourselves up , dust ourselves down and start all over again and don't give up !
It seems beneficial insects also prefer natural hazel bean poles .
Ladybirds eat Greenflies ...hooray !
Pea flowers ....soon I can add a few fresh peas to our salad .
Crimson Broad-beans ...sweetly scented and so pretty ..the bees are loving these flowers .
Birdie ...my grape loving female Blackbird ....reminding me to plant out this last pot of Sweet-pea odoratus "Erewhon" . Lavender blue and pale pink , with a very beautiful perfume , to go beside my front door . I hope I haven't left it too late .
I know they do better from an Autumn sowing . I have a couple more packets to try again in the Autumn .
That's all for now , I have to go check on the greenhouse . Funny weather today, sun goes in and it becomes chilly, sun comes out it becomes too hot . I have sown the seeds of Morning Glory , Lobelia "Cambridge Blue" , Poppies and pink Campanulas , so I am keeping a close eye on the temperature in the greenhouse .
Cheerio for now Debbie x
We gardeners gave to spring back so many times. I was really surprised the first time that I noticed the lovely bread bean perfume.
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