I decided my work for today would be to tidy up the beans and peas bed .
To climb in there and pull up the speedwell and chickweed and the pretty scarlet pimpernell .
These are the good weeds ! I leave them to grow around and beneath the hazel rod bean teepees .They really help to keep the moisture in and we had a really good harvest of the French Climing Beans ...but it's time to have a clear out and get this bed ready for my brassicas and leeks .
Our Beans have been brilliant !
We've had lots to eat fresh and some are in the freezer .
The Peas were fantastic . I have never had so many ! Enough for proper portions to have for dinner !
Really pleased and I'll be growing these again next year .
But today they are turning crispy and exhausted and it's time to pull them out .
So I climbed in and spent about an hour hanging upside down grasping and pulling weeds 🥵 and picking a few beans to eat and some crispy pods to sow again next year . Actually I'm leaving the french beans in to save seeds from now really .
Over there in the background are the potato tubs , just to the left of that rusty old incinerator....these are doing really well too !
This is our second planting of potatoes . Our first Spring planted lot have been beautiful ..still got one more tub to furtle through ! 😃
Ricardo Lord Protector of the Spud Tubs has four more tubs on the go for Christmas and mid-winter potatoes ..... fingers crossed !
In another bed I have parsnips also for Christmas !
Planted on the 8th August this second lot of potatoes are doing well and have already been earthed up a couple of times and are looking like another top up might be required .
❄️ We generally don't get frost here ....Lots of ⛈️ alarmingly wild , violent and destructive storms ⛈️ ....but usually no snow or frost . ❄️ Don't get me wrong ..it gets cold though ! ❄️
If need be Ricardo will drag them under cover . The woodshed has a clear plastic corrugated (and leaking) roof . So plenty of light and the stacked wood gives off some warmth too .
I over winter quite a few plants in here too . Goodness I'll be digging up my Musa ensete "Maurelii" banoonahs again soon ....towards the end of next month .
You might think that is a bit early but I dig them up and plant them up in really big tubs with lovely fresh compost mixed with a bit of pearlite .They go into the corner of the woodshed . I give them a good drink of rain water and just let them get their roots down and put up new happy leaves and look fabulous . As we go into the colder times they get less and less water , I allow them to go almost dormant .
Later on I will lash polystyrene sheets around the tubs .
I do that every Autumn and they are fine .
I leave Musa basjoo outside in the ground . I only put a cloche over it if there is a weather warning and take it off afterwards .
People , please remember that I am way down South on the Lizard !
If you live up country , then you will need to look up what people do up north !
I will do a post showing exactly what I do later on .
So there we are , a whole wheelbarrow load to save and go onto the pumpkin bed with cardboard and seaweed and lovely rotting leaves .
The Runnerbean bed also needs replenishing .
My sweetcorn has done nothing and my Runnerbeans well .....you can see ....they are only just starting to climb up the poles !
I am hopeful of having a late harvest , I think it's not too late for them .
Ricardo says "I don't like them anyway !"
The price of vegetables in the shops is going sky high though now . He will be glad of them later on .
£2.00 for a cucumber is ridiculous !
We had some rain .....so a bit of happiness for the wildlife .
That's all for today !
I am aching and need a flop and a nice glass of icy cold chocolate milk .
Going to do some embroidery and maybe a bit of patchwork ....we'll go for a walk later on .
Peace and Love 🕊️💕
Love Debbie 💐x
Our beans have done well with lots of watering. The first lot of peas were rubbish but the latest lot are being harvested. Our sweetcirn doesn't look promising.
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