It's planting time again, although with this warm Springtime, I feel like I'm behind already. I am planting Borlotto beans and climbing French beans today (and a few runners). The Borlottos are beige with red flecks and contribute to an excellent cassoulet that Anita makes; the French beans are white and make delicious green bean pods.
I am trying a new kind of climbing frame for the beans this year. One is the usual type, using bamboo stakes with hazlenut twigs between them for support. The other is a new one for me - I have built the frame out of bamboo as usual, but the support is an iron rebar grid that I bought ages ago in anticipation of a project that I didn't do, and that has been annoying me ever since.
We shall see if it works OK. I'll be putting in melon seeds and sweet corn too, later today.
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I knew they were good for something. Heart eh? Go to it rightly and don't do your back in.
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