Chris and Steve's Weblog – City Chickens

We made our first visit to the plots today after a gap of two weeks. The dense growth was phenominal and not just on our plots. I think the torrential rain has kept almost everyone away.
The butternut squash plants had taken over the nursery bed and the area around it. Tangled amongst them were the [...]

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Today I have sown more beans in pots to start off at home. Runner Bean White Lady, Climbing Bean Blauhilde, Black Bean Delinel and some unlabelled small white beans sent to me by a forum member last year.

Yesterday I potted on some Tomatoes Sweet Millions given to us by a friend along with a Cherry [...]

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I had a lovely day yesterday as my son Sean and his partner Debbie came to visit. They brought an enormous bunch of Rhubarb from their garden. The leaves were massive. They are veggie growing nutters too so we all went down to the plots to join Rob who was working hard digging over the [...]

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I put twelve of these seeds in a 7″ pot and into a polythene bag to germinate. I have also sown a few more lettuce seeds. Little Gem, Lollo Rosso and Raddichio. The first sowing of peas I put in at home need planting out now so we intend to do that this afternoon, weather [...]

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Today I sowed 18 Borlotto Lingua di Fuoco, climbing bean Firetongue. It is an Italian speciality bean and can be used fresh as young pods, semi mature beans or dried.
 
I also put about 40 Pea Starlight in to soak. We sowed these last year but didn’t get a very good crop as we were late [...]

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I was given some seeds for these lovely beans by the previous plot holder and have grown them this year for the first time. I am not sure of the correct name for the ones I have but on doing a google I came up with the above. Well wether they are Barlotti or Borlotti [...]

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