Last Monday, after a weekend away I came back to find my climbing French Beans had grown apace in my greenhouse at home. I had delayed planting them out on the plot because the forecast was for very cold nights while I was away but they had had to deal with 41 degrees over the weekend, fortunately with no apparent ill effects. So today I felt I had to plant them out despite not hardening them off. Hopefully the next week or so will be warm enough for them to cope.
I had thinned them out by removing the smallest where there were two seedlings in a module so I had 32 strong plants and 15 somewhat weaker plants which were the transplanted seedlings. I planted out the stronger plants and almost filled the row. Afterwards I unrolled the 1 foot high mesh I keep just to protect young beans from the Red-legged Partridges which in the past have nipped out and eaten the growing points of my young bean plants. I also scattered a few slug pellets along the row, a couple of dozen is all that was needed. I took the weaker plants home and will keep them going to fill in the end of the row and any failures. They will do better in the greenhouse now I have sprayed it with shading compound to keep it cool in the sun - a very messy job which I shall try to avoid by using shade netting next year. (Anyone want 3/4 bottle of shade mixture?) I had taken some '60 day' Calabrese plants that were starting to produce flower heads but there was no time to plant them so I shall probably have to re-sow a second batch in larger modules. I then tackled some of the weeds growing around my Blueberries and into my onions. Most came up with the hoe but there were some big clumps of grass and a few deep-rooted plants of the green manure grass. Comments are closed.
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May 2023
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