Tag Archives: Broad Beans

Give Peas a Chance

Posted on June 30, 2011 | Leave a comment

The peas are doing exceptionally well this year

I’ve done three small successional sowings of peas this year and they really are doing exceptionally well. The variety is ‘Jumbo’ from Thompson & Morgan and it is living up to its name with long pods crammed with well-flavoured peas. With just two of us in the household, small sowings are perfect, providing a handful of peas each day to add to the same quantity of broadbeans and French beans. If I’ve been to the fish shop, I will also add a handful of samphire – highly recommended. Landlubbers can buy samphire from Waitrose.

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Posted in Garden Tips

Tagged Broad Beans, French Beans, Peas, samphire

Full steam ahead

Posted on April 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

: Beans galore

: Peashoots

: Coldframe

: Swiss Chard

It is full steam ahead in the greenhouse right now – once the second lot of broad beans have put on a bit more growth they can go to the allotment and the dwarf beans will be planted at the feet of the sweet peas.

The coldframe is full of plants that are waiting for some available space in the garden.

I’ve sown pots of peas to harvest as peashoots while we wait for salads to grow larger.

Planting swiss chard in last year’s tomato grow bags has been a huge success. We’ve picked them in the greenhouse and now the bags are outside with still plenty of chard left to harvest.

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Posted in In The Greenhouse

Tagged Broad Beans, grow bags, pea shoots, swiss chard

Gardening Leave

Posted on June 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

peas

This is the point when I ask myself why I’m going away. By the time I get back, despite enlisting friends to keep an eye on things, I’m sure the plants will have behaved like teenagers in their parents absence and gone a bit wild. I have moved most of the seedlings to a table in a shady spot where I think they will survive best during my absence, whatever the weather. We are harvesting a great crop of peas and broadbeans – they are particularly delicious mixed with samphire which has just come into season at the local fish shop.

seedlings

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Posted in In The Garden

Tagged Broad Beans, garden holiday, Peas

Rootrainers Offer

Posted on March 14, 2010 | 1 Comment

Just at the right time of year Haxnicks is offering good savings on Roottrainers, the perfect growing system for deep-rooted plants like broad beans and runner beans. Visit www.haxnicks.co.uk