Runner beans are also getting a fair amount of blackfly but I'm getting myself up the allotment as much as I can spray the buggers off with washing up liquid mixed with water. Broad beans have been hit hard and you can see the damage they cause in a week. Hate them!!
We stuck all the beer bottles and cans from the BBQ on top of the bean frame to keep the birds off - they poop on the leaves! Onions, courgettes, sunflowers and tomatoes are also doing rather well. Will have to stake the tomatoes before they get heavy with fruit and flop over. (One thing that annoys me about tomatoes is that they are a bit flawed - top heavy with thin stalks - daft really!)
The back of the plot is gradually being dug up and progress is starting to happen. Now that I have my booties I can squelch in the muddy bits and get all that couch grass out!
Both myself and Karl have picked all the strawberries (bucket loads!) and Karl is now making Strawberry Wine in his demi-john pot thing.
Climbing french beans...errr?
Nibbled Turnips
Prize winning carrots maybe?
Ill looking broad beans
The perils of blackfly - blackened stems and leaves
Runners gradually climbing
More carrots!
Onions & Shallotts
Sunflowers!!!
Yellow fruiting courgette - should be interesting?!
Bottles and cans keeping the birds off with their 'reflecting' qualities
Cherry tomato plant
Looking green and plentiful!
