Some of you may remember that about three weeks ago I planted the broadbeans in the greenhouse. Well a fewe days ago they broke the surface of the soil in their pots. Now, a significant number of them have germinated and their first set of leaves are beginning to unfirl. With all this cold weather, I am thinking that it will be another couple of weeks until they are ready to put outside into the cold ground. Here is a shot looking into the greenhouse from outside. A couple of close-ups of the healthy-looking seedlings. ...and finally a view of the section of the old garden where we have made one of the beds ready for receiving the young plantlets in a couple of weeks. You can also see the most recently cleaned strawberry beds. The paths will have to wait until the soil is dryer before they get hoed clean. Inside the green netting are the purple sprouting broccoli--looking pretty darn good at the moment.
Very nice looking new babies you have there, they are so full and bright green. Hope you have a crop as good as last spring or even better.
Great to see someone is growing something at this time of year. I've got all my plants put to rest for the winter in my heated potting shed...won't attempt to grow anything new til spring. We had snow flurries today, and I spent a few hours filling my planter boxes with evergreen boughs to get ready for the holidays before they freeze solid. Not growing, but green anyway.
your sprouts lookin pretty good. So "with all this cold weather" what would that be? your outside garden looking good too. Our weather here is 28 degrees f. with some snow spitting around. I kinda wish I could plant winter vege's but our ground freezes over solid, too hard of winters here. keep up the good work there.
Your sprouts look lovely, and I'm very envious. The only plants growing here at the moment, are weeds.
wow they are great, could I sow seeds indoors now of broad beans and plant out any time soon we are getting light frosts at times, but so far no hard freezes. I would love to try them but also can they grow in pots as I do not have an area for veg in the ground yet.
Another bumper crop started!! :-D Your garden certainly looks very neat and tidy and with so much growing in it too. I look forward to seeing piccies of all those babies planted up in the soil.
Thank you for your comments...it's nice to share the developments with someone. PETUNIA: The temps here are getting down below freezing at night and a bit above during the daytime. Burrrrrr... PLAYTIME: The only type that do consistantly well during the winter months is the Broad Bean 'Aquadulce claudia'. Check this out this T & M catalogue entry--it's where I buy mine from every year: http://www.thompson-morgan.com/seeds1/p ... 138/1.html I don't know if you can plant them in containers and expect to get enough to make a meal. I mean, one plant will not give enough beans for a family. Haqving said that, if you have several containers and want to give it a go along with some planted out in the yard--why not give it a try? I plant around 100 plants out every year and then get enough beans to heat fresh a fre times and have beans 24 or sometimes more during the rest of the year. I know that what I am about to say has nothing at all to do with broadbean planting in the fall, but-- If you have limited space where you live, a really good crop to plant is the runner bean. If you prepare your ground in the proper (special) way up against your house in the south side and planted say only six - twelve plants you could have enough to eat and freeze-in as well, I'd bet. Plus if you choose something like the Runner bean 'Sunset' or the new replacement, 'Celebration' not only will you have beans galore, but a beautiful salmon-coloured blossom to boot! Other runner bean sorts have beautiful orangish flowers, red and whithe flowers or pure white or pure crimson flowers. I have been thinking about growing runner beans ornamentally on one of my arches. (of course I would harvest the beans to keep them blooming ) Sunset is one of the three sorts of runner bean that I always plant after having tried several other sorts, but this year I have ordered the 'Celebration' to try instead. I know the sunset well and am very pleased with it (in fact it is my favourite), but I do like trying new things. If you ever decide to give runners a try I would be happy to tell you what I know and have tried (for instance, I find the soil preparation before planting critical to having a successful harvest), just give a shout.
thank you, thank you Sjoerd, hopefully by spring I will have an area I can grow in I will certainly come to you for help runner beans sound like a great idea to me and I would appreciate the lovely colours you mentioned.
No probs, Playtime...I'm at your service. You know I didn't just make the suggestion as a whim. I could take you to a house right here where I live and show you a person living in town that had eight poles (Tonkin bamboo canes) angulated from the ground towards the wall of their brick home (on the south side). They grow beans there successfully every year...and thus, so can you!
