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I think that they are roots, looking for soil.
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So downward then?
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Onoff
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Unless you have any gravity defying sections of garden, yes.
I didn't know if they were shoots, that shot up or roots that grew down.
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The "long sprouty bits" will be the chits i.e.sprouts, they go upwards.
"Thin wiggly bits" are roots, they go downwards...
Don't worry about it, the spud will sort itself out.
The feral spuds from the compost bins won't give you much of a crop this year.
Sometimes worth just leaving their crop in the ground to grow next year.
We have some feral spuds in the corner of the rhubarb patch that we've harvested some of for the past three years without planting anything.
(Talk about "no dig" !
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The "long sprouty bits" will be the chits i.e.sprouts, they go upwards.
"Thin wiggly bits" are roots, they go downwards...
Don't worry about it, the spud will sort itself out.
The feral spuds from the compost bins won't give you much of a crop this year.
Sometimes worth just leaving their crop in the ground to grow next year.
We have some feral spuds in the corner of the rhubarb patch that we've harvested some of for the past three years without planting anything.
(Talk about "no dig" !
In which case I stand (upside down) corrected.
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Still picking currants, takes ages including cleaning, washing, vac packing and freezing. Did about 5kg yesterday. Too hot to pick more today but probably got the same amount to process this evening. Loads more still on bushes.
The wife practises permaculture, lots of companion planting, mulches, manure, cardboard etc. very little digging. Seems to be working.
She delights in seeing lots of variety of bugs in the garden, the latest she spotted is the yellow face fly, size of a bumble bee, it lays its eggs on caterpillars, which then hatch and eat the caterpillars, so nature's pesticide
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The wife practises permaculture, lots of companion planting, mulches, manure, cardboard etc. very little digging. Seems to be working.
She delights in seeing lots of variety of bugs in the garden, the latest she spotted is the yellow face fly, size of a bumble bee, it lays its eggs on caterpillars, which then hatch and eat the caterpillars, so nature's pesticide
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Try getting it so you have a row of prunable black currants with hoed out weeds as wide as the bush & you'll have loads of easy to pick berries .
I learnt about red & black current bushes in School Rural science practical gardening lessons in the early 1960's .. Our bushes there were a good five foot tall and with a six foot spread .
Each autumn we laid a brickies barrow of well rotted cow byre muck ( taken out the crew yard in the spring ) round each bush to feed them . One bush was massive with half inch berries , three years previous the science teacher had the lads bury a road kill badger by its roots some two foot deep
I learnt about red & black current bushes in School Rural science practical gardening lessons in the early 1960's .. Our bushes there were a good five foot tall and with a six foot spread .
Each autumn we laid a brickies barrow of well rotted cow byre muck ( taken out the crew yard in the spring ) round each bush to feed them . One bush was massive with half inch berries , three years previous the science teacher had the lads bury a road kill badger by its roots some two foot deep
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The berries are quite easy to pick the problem is the amount, its getting towards industrial quantities with the blackcurrants!
We do use lots of cow muck, we have a herd next door, spent mushroom compost (which is mainly pig muck), our own garden compost, wood chip, bark and all manner of other stuff. Stuff grows here, but the season is short so the missus gets varieties suited to this, for example Russian tomatoes.
Just had jostaberry crumble, its a blackcurrant/gooseberry cross. Very nice
We do use lots of cow muck, we have a herd next door, spent mushroom compost (which is mainly pig muck), our own garden compost, wood chip, bark and all manner of other stuff. Stuff grows here, but the season is short so the missus gets varieties suited to this, for example Russian tomatoes.
Just had jostaberry crumble, its a blackcurrant/gooseberry cross. Very nice
Our refuge gal gave me a few tomato seeds from her home land harvested by her grand mother a couple of years ago .. we got massive tomatoes five inches across but they only grew in the glasshouse as they didn't like the cooler long wetter UK growing season, they liked 34 plus temps for 10 weeks or so .
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I’ve been away for a week….. came back to this lot….
Still a ton of potatoes left to dig but of course, my wife goes and buys a bag!
I’ve never grown climbing French beans before, my word they’re a productive plant! If anyone is interested, the variety is Cobra.
Still a ton of potatoes left to dig but of course, my wife goes and buys a bag!
I’ve never grown climbing French beans before, my word they’re a productive plant! If anyone is interested, the variety is Cobra.
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I’ve been away for a week….. came back to this lot….
Still a ton of potatoes left to dig but of course, my wife goes and buys a bag!
I’ve never grown climbing French beans before, my word they’re a productive plant! If anyone is interested, the variety is Cobra.
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Which ones are the Cobra?
Czar variety are a great runner bean, great cropper, white flowers with a white butter bean...bean.
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The ones on the left. Those are just the ones from the bottom foot of each plant. The plants are now at the top of the canes and flowering like crazy, so I might have to try and find some recipes.
The sugar snap peas on the right have done well too. They are lovely raw, so make a nice little snack when I'm doing anything at the plot.
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Look up " Pickled dilly beans " to use & store some of the climbers . They pressure can & blanch/freeze well too.I’ve been away for a week….. came back to this lot….
Still a ton of potatoes left to dig but of course, my wife goes and buys a bag!
I’ve never grown climbing French beans before, my word they’re a productive plant! If anyone is interested, the variety is Cobra.
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Just let the beans topple over at the top of the canes and keep picking like mad.. If you really want to stop them pinch out the top of each growing tip .The ones on the left. Those are just the ones from the bottom foot of each plant. The plants are now at the top of the canes and flowering like crazy, so I might have to try and find some recipes.
The sugar snap peas on the right have done well too. They are lovely raw, so make a nice little snack when I'm doing anything at the plot.
I've still got a couple of KG of dried home grown peas & beans in heat sealed vac pack from last year . This year I haven't done a thing in the garden due to my new mancupboard project and surgery on my hands . Not a prob , the peas and stored beans are good for at least three years if stored in a dark cool place like this . .
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I hadn't thought about that, and also green bean chutney.
