Runner bean journals
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Runner beans 'Celebration' & 'Streamline': The harvest continues!
Runner bean 'Streamline' Harvesting, Runner bean 'Celebration' Harvesting, and Plot 12A gardenPartly Sunny 19°C / 66°FI’ve now picked kilos & kilos of these beans – just during August! My runner beans ‘Celebration’ & ‘Streamline’ are giving me cause to celebrate! One of the things I’ve noticed about the pods of ‘Celebration’ while picking them is that...
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Runner bean 'Streamline' sown on Plot 12A
Runner bean 'Streamline' and Plot 12A gardenPartly Sunny 16°C / 61°FToday I sowed the Runner bean ‘Streamline’ seeds I got in a swap with carms on Plot 12A. These went directly into the ground without having been sown in pots in the greenhouse on Gerry’s allotment first like I did with the Runner bean ‘Celebration’ .
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Bean 'White seeded' and Gerry & Dave's allotment garden
Partly Sunny 16°C / 61°F
Today I sowed some White seeded Runner beans in Gerry’s allotment. The beans came from the plants that were growing on my allotment, Plot 12A, when I took it on in September last year. I set the canes up this year in form of pyramids. This is the first time I’ve tried this configurati...
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Bloom Day - didn't that month go quickly!
Runner bean, St George Flowering, Kitchen raised beds garden , Campanula 'Loddens Anna' Blooming, Tagetes T...Sunny 25°C / 77°FPhoto 1: These last few sunny days have really brought out the Livingstone Daisy flowers which were a particular favourite of my dad’s – one of the reasons why I grow them. Photo 2: Tub of Lilac Rose Geranium with mixed Lobelia. Planted in one of my old, split, goat feeding tubs, ba...
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Bean Borlotto Growing, Runner bean, St George Budding, Dwarf Bean, Purple teepee Flowering, Lettuce salad b...
Sunny 20°C / 68°F
Bed won out for the last 10 days! Usually, if I’ve had a concentrated gardening day, I’m achingly tired and just want to drop into bed but being that I’ve seen considerably more than a few summers, I also want to enter everything and babble on about it before I forget. Have a...
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Runner Beans - Sunset: Flowering
Bean (Sunset) Flowering and Arbor gardenOvercast 16°C / 61°FForgot to record the resprouting / dormancy breaking of these. I did note it on the back of something I wouldn’t lose, when I find it I’ll record it!
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GroundsKeepers Log: testing 123..
Back Wall garden , Sunny Strip garden , Patio garden , and Windowbox gardenPost numero uno. I have decided to begin this garden blog attempt with a brief rundown about the garden statuses as of today. back_wall: saru and i dug out the walkways. 1 (2ft w) row, and 2 (3ft w) rows. approx 2ft apart. black_berry vine growing near the entrance gate. crimson_clover on the bac...Overcast 14°C / 58°F -
Coco Rose de Prague - frustrating results of internet research
Bean, Coco Rose de Prague17°C / 62°FI must have better things to do with my time. But apparently not today. Once again, I tried to find more information on a seed that I bought because I found its French name and brief description appealing. And it only cost 35 cents, which makes it much easier to make an impulse buy (I think altog...
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Runner bean Scarlet Emperor Sown and Allotment Vegetable garden
Five sown into peat pots with multi compost, will be grown up a wigwamRainy 12°C / 54°F
