Back garden produce

Some snaps of what I manage to grow in my small garden. Runner beans in
pots, courgettes galore, and pretty flowers too :D

Splodge...

They look nice Val
I'll have a couple of pounds of beans please:))
Splodge

Aries...

If we lived neared you could have some with pleasure. I pick at least a
couple of pounds every day LOL

jamps...

Anita...

Thank you Val - some lovely photos there, obviously not affected by the
lack of water according to how well the Hydrangea looks :)

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

Grass looked a bit parched though.

Aries...

I don't eat grass so I don't water it LOL It looks pretty green around the
edges of the pots tho because of water spillage I guess.

Aries...

I water religiously every day, sometimes twice in very hot weater. I keep
a tank of water filled and use buckets to collect from it :)

Terrific Val!
How many beans per 10/12 inch pot?

Aries...

bean plants you mean? My pots are larger than that and deep too. The two
pots on either side of the garden seat are about 20 inches square. The
long pot against the fence is quite big - about two and a half feet long by
fourteen inches wide, and the other pot against the fence, a square one, is
very deep and is approx 16 inches square.

So I planted five plants in each of the 3 square pots and about 9 in the
long one :) I do have some planted in the ground in another area too - 12
plants, so you see I have beans galore LOL

jamps...

ThanksVal. I shall certainly have a go next year.

Old Grizzly...

And do they taste as good as they look Val? its a good idea to have
beans in pots where you can sit and pick them also ;-) Good job i dont

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

And to think you could have got a sheep to eat it, and then cut off it's
fleece to make wool for all that jumper knitting you could have done in
front of the fire on those long winter evenings. ;)

Aries...

you don't CUT off a sheep's fleece, you SHEAR it LOL

JoeH...

EWE to 'im Val, you don't have to put TUP with it.

Aries...

ewe'r right - Bah!

Old Grizzly...

Ho HO Ho LOL or is it EEEEK She bites ;-)

Aries...

Butt!! erm, well Rams do )

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

I've noticed she has had these aggressive moods before. :(

Flyiñg Ñuñ 2°°6 +...

I don't, I'll leave it to you to do. Incidentally in the late 1890s and
early 1900s, some of my male ancestors w*orked in a local factory making
those old hand sheep shearers

That's according to what they'd entered on the 1891 and 1901 censuses.

show my garden :D

Aries...

ah but if you look at the pics you will see that my beans in pots have
grown to over 7 feet tall LOL Of course I feed and water them well :)

shaz...

What a good idea to have them in pots? What do you plant them in? Is it soil
or compost? I would like to try and do that next year.

Aries...

I collected some free horse manure for a nearby stables and put a goodly
amount in the bottom of the pots, topped up with potting compost. After
the first flowers appeared I fed them often and watered twice a day :)

shaz...

Thanks

Foxy at w*rk...

Lovely Val

Jackie...

You certainly make use of all the space Val. That is a lovely coloured
hydrangea!

Aries...

I havea three hydrangeas - but that is the deepest pink one. I also have
raspberries, rhubarb, and a Bramley apple tree. Yesterday I made a
raspberry and apple (from two fallen apples) crumble and it was/is
delicious :D

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