What variety are you growing? It’s probably ready to pick. Leaving them too long can make the skins tough.
You can eat them at any size. I like them really small, more meat and less of the pappy middle. Two plants and you will be getting one a day soon. I have a whole one with my lunch every day. You will find fresh ones leave no aftertaste like some shop bought ines
They are perfect
Just stripped ours of all beans and pulled them up as the black fly was beginning to get a hold. Had a really good crop though. The aphids are really really bad this year. I think we just completed cropping in time. The shallots are just beginning to free themselves from each other so we are picking them and drying them as they come away. Again good sizes so no complaints. All the rain missed us tonight so far. Cracks in the ground I can lose a trowel in !
Yes ... I noticed the early signs a couple of days ago and hit them with the Bio friendly, incredibly expensive, black fly spray which, as it foams incredibly well when I got some on my hands and washed them off .. I rather suspect is just a weak solution of washing up liquid with a little fairy dust. Whatever it is it appears to have done the trick and at present there are no blackfly surviving on my broad beans. It's really annoying when it happens ... I find that overwinter Acqua Dulce Claudia seem to fare better as they get a head start before the blackfly get cracking. I've often lost those sown in spring to blackfly and it takes them no time at all to destroy a previously healthy plant.
In general, the time in the United Kingdom is complementary and opposite to that of Galicia. Until today we have had wet weather with unpredictable storms due to a barometric depression that has moved from the Azores to the Pyrenees. Tomorrow the summer anticyclone is located around the Azores to clear the storms to the north. I'm sorry but it's rainy in the UK.
Aren't I the lucky one then ...
). The intention is to use this one for growing squashes during the summer because some don't do that well outdoors here, and then keep chickens in it over the winter when required by bird flu restrictions.
Same here, got two seperate beds. One is fine.
That looks great.
Because what else is there to do on the afternoon of the hottest day of the year so far (at least here) than barrow around a tonne of well-rotted horse manure into a polytunnel? Hopefully tomorrow I can get the hotspot tape done and the cover on and it's ready to plant up.
I'm right down to the dregs of my cardboard stash now, too. I think it's nearly all the stuff printed with shiny inks. I prefer to reserve that for paths than growing space. Or for lighting bonfires.
James
