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Hi John, Charles and all,
I would be interested to know if it’s ok to leave the roots in the ground too as I have been putting off removing my leaf beet as I remember the effort it took to get the roots out of the bed last year. Never realised they went so deep! Would be much easier to cut them off at around ground level and plant around them if this is possible.
Thanks, Eliza
And I planted into six inches of very well rotted horse manure over grass.
Eliza
Not worried really, just a little wary. I was just turning it over and after finding a few wasps here and there thought I’d leave it a little while longer! Nothing added to this heap recently, Don.
I am finding some wasps in my compost. Anyone else?
Well this is odd. I too have had digging in a couple of my beds and half of my radish and some lettuce seedlings were lost. I thought at first cats but not quite enough disturbance and no mess left behind. Too much damage for birds who have indeed been taking compost from around the broad beans and leaving the usual tell-tale scatter of compost around the beds. The radishes had plastic mesh over so I’m thinking a mouse, or rats?
Eliza
Hello Hugh
Most of my raised beds were made over grass. I put down six inches of whatever compost was to hand and planted immediately. No need to wait.
Eliza
Hi all
Just bumping this up
Eliza
Hello Charles and everyone
My broad beans are starting to pod now and I am watering them regularly. Do I need to pinch out the tips or not? I have no blackfly yet.
Eliza
My lettuce, chervil, parsley, leaf beet, spinach, mizuna etc grow really well in the shade cast by my large apple tree in the summer. Slug damage can be a problem in really wet summers though as the beds take a while to dry out after heavy and persistent rains. In dryer summers I have to water more but try to do this in the mornings.
Eliza
Thanks, Charles.
Next time I’ll space a little better to start with. Then no doubt the weather will intervene!
Eliza
Well Charles and all,
I had no more losses so as you advised I tried to take out every other bean plant but couldn’t bring myself to do it! I guess I removed about a third so now have a spacing of some at 4×12″ and some at 8×12″.
Do I really need to remove more? All still looking good at present. Has anyone on here ever grown Aquadulce at such close spacing?
I don’t have a lot of space so I push most things as far as I can.
Thanks, Eliza
I put chicken wire and sometimes rose prunings too on bare beds as any left without around here are just asking for cats to investigate.
Eliza