Putting up more bean frames 🌿

 

The sun didn't come up this morning . Oh ! I'm sure it's there somewhere behind the fog .

I sat in the shed thinking .

What do I feel like doing ?      I know !

I'll strip off ...

           ....all the cardboard on this bed and get it ready for leeks and even more beans . 😀

I gave it a gentle dig over . 🌿I put the remaining partly decomposed carboard under the Runner-bean frame . And it can block out the light and keep the weeds down until I plant in the Runner-beans . 

 It would be lovely, and great for my poorly back, if I could be completely no dig , but there are always several long tap-rooted weeds that have to be dug out with my fork .

 Can't afford to buy anymore compost to spread over the beds . I make what I can , but it's never really enough .

 I spread spent compost from my tomatoes and cucumber plants and throw down veg peelings and grass clippings , seaweed , autumn leaves . Cardboard goes over the top , posts to hold it all down , Worms do some of the work .

    I always have to dig in what hasn't broken down and move the partially decomposed cardboard around to other beds .

 This works for me !    I'm not perfect ....sorry microbes ! 🤣

Then sat enjoying a nice cuppatea , watching the Robin .

I feed the birds at my bird feeding station in front of my kitchen window . I love to watch them while I'm doing the washing up . The Robins will come to my hand for suet pellets , but honestly they really do prefer to forage for wild food ..small slugs , grubs , worms, millipedes , ants eggs (they love them !) and other insects . 🐜🪳🐛🦟🪱🪱

Then he sat watching me , while I fixed up the bean frames .

  I stopped at this point ,went in and had breakfast .

Then ,  I got them all pushed in .Just need to tie in the tops with some strong string .

If they can stand on their own without the tops tied in , think how much stronger they will be when tied in !.........( It's a Debbie way of thinking ! 🤣)

I'll be growing my Leeks in this bed too . Beans , Peas and Leeks ....whether they get along together or not !

I pushed in some pea sticks and just need to get some chicken wire around it all .

Then I hoed around the new Lavender and Chive bed and look what I found  🤩

                            I found a nice chunk of early Bronze age pottery !  🤩

                       I love it when the ancestors reach out to me !

               That's all for now . I'm going in to pamper my sore hands  .

                                       Love and Peace 🕊️🤍

                                                              Debbie x

                                                         ☁️🌧️🌦️🌧️☁️

Beanpoles up 2016

So with the ground nice and soft after the rain , I dug down about a spade and a half holes for each pole , maybe a little more . Plant the poles and backfill with the earth one at a time .  I usually plant three poles at each end for extra strength and stability , but I think these feel strong enough this time .

Then off into the shed , where I carefully stowed away all the bits and pieces from last years beanpoles .
 It's that plastic coated wire I want ,hanging on the handle . Oh it's so good to see all this stuff here again !




Then back up to the veg garden..my little friend following me . She gets so excited when I get out my garden fork .

I now tread down the earth around each pole really hard to make sure it is a good solid Cornish storm force 10 proof structure . Also it is surprising  just how heavy a crop of runnerbeans can be , when in full growth and scrabbling over the top .



O.K. So the top horizontal pole is a bit wonky ..so this is not the Chelsea Flower Show !

I dug up that lovely leek with the purple leaves . I think it is a seedling from some Blue de Solaise leeks I grew last year  or maybe the year before . Seeing it made me get on line and order some D'hiver de St Victor  a heritage leek organic ,which is one related to it .
I do love leeks and am growing lots of them ....I know its a bit late now but I will squeeze then in and make them grow !

Next I sort out the cabbage bed ,which is at one end of the beanpoles ........

Back in the Autumn  , under an environmesh cloche ,  I planted  a small bag of Shakespeare onion sets, which are doing well , a row of some onions seeds which a friend recommended..nowhere to be seen ....and a mere sprinkling of  good old reliable Greyhound Cabbage seeds , also doing well .

The earth being lovely and soft , it was fairly easy to pull out the three thistles, one dandelion, chickweed and an a few damned Hairy Bitter Cress .
 The pigeons love all brassicas ,so carefully I pull the cloche back over ......in doing so I find a couple of large snails !

 Oh well ! That's that job done ! yawn ....maybe I'll put some flags up on it tomorrow .... for fun !