This year we’ve grown just six beds of field or fava beans 🫘 Five beds of Vespa field beans and one bed of Sutton Dwarf broad beans (Fava) The Sutton have already flowered and set beans so we’ll have a crop soon 😛 The Vespa are getting taller and starting to show flowers. These produce tiny beans, many more per plant🪴 and they are so tasty 😋 #Allotment#Today#GrowYourOwn#Gardening
I’ve got a recurrence again this year of what looks like a fungal disease on my purple sprouting broccoli: anyone know what it is? And can I compost it?
I left a lot of dead annual plants standing over winter instead of clearing them away. Found lots of ladybirds hibernating in them and then as soon as spring arrived the garden filled with them so they were ready for the aphid onslaught on my fruit trees. The ant farmers are loosing this year! Normally they’re well established by the time the ladybirds arrive. Keep your gardens messy! #gardening
If you find yourself in the greater Seattle-Tacoma area this weekend and you're interested in cool plants, come to Blue Poppy Day at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden. Meconopsis 'lingholm', the Himalayan blue poppy, is renowned for its incredible color--and is famously difficult to grow. This place has just the right conditions, and they have thousands! They also have hundreds of species of rhodies in bloom. #gardening #bloomScrolling #PNW #seattle #Tacoma https://rhodygarden.org/events/blue-poppy-day-2024/
Happy 39th wedding anniversary to my partner in the garden and best friend, @SusanRollinson
To my Lilly of the Valley from your dandelion. Looking forward to the next 39! 😀 #gardening #allotment #anniversary
I noticed some of the compost in a few of the herb pots was raised today. Assumed they'd been nudged accidentally or the cat had investigated. But this evening I noticed a pale yellowish lump in one and it's a mushroom! There's one in another too.
I did not plant mushrooms. Wtf? Can I eat them? How did this happen?
When we moved in last autumn, an old rose grew up the holly (left trunk), along with brambles & sycamore maple saplings. Red rose hips dotted the holly, thick rose branches hung down to grab anyone close. Love this year's new growth, so thinned most of it out, leaving 2 old stalks, as well as the mature sycamore (right trunk), since I'm not a lumber jack. Hoping the new growth will skirt the trunks while the rose hips do what they did last year. #gardening@gardening