I think the plant itself is Ok, I just should have cut it back more regularly to keep the new growth in the miggle. I'm not all that good at getting cuttings to root though :-(
in recent years, most of them have been left on the plants far too long, until they're a foot or more long, and tough enough to tow a battleship with.
Probably because they're marketing them to folk like my mum, whom I love dearly, but she boils her runner beans until they look and taste like seaweed. No wonder I grew up disliking vegetables!
Wouldn't it be handy if I could poke some beans down the intertubes to you! - we nearly always have more than we can eat ourselves and though I freeze the excess, they're never as good as the fresh ones of course.
We've got some raspberries beginning to develop, and there are enough brambles in flower around the garden to hope that we'll get a reasonable crop of those too.
I must get some raspberry canes for next year. I think I said that last year too :-)
There's a massive blackberry tangle at the back of my allotment behind the shed which generally gives us several pounds of fruit in exchange fo much swearing and a few bits of skin :-)
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I think the plant itself is Ok, I just should have cut it back more regularly to keep the new growth in the miggle. I'm not all that good at getting cuttings to root though :-(
Probably because they're marketing them to folk like my mum, whom I love dearly, but she boils her runner beans until they look and taste like seaweed. No wonder I grew up disliking vegetables!
Wouldn't it be handy if I could poke some beans down the intertubes to you! - we nearly always have more than we can eat ourselves and though I freeze the excess, they're never as good as the fresh ones of course.
I must get some raspberry canes for next year. I think I said that last year too :-)
There's a massive blackberry tangle at the back of my allotment behind the shed which generally gives us several pounds of fruit in exchange fo much swearing and a few bits of skin :-)