Today I felt it was warm enough to plant out our broad beans. They had been taken out of the greenhouse, sheltered in large terracotta pots for a week or so and now it was time to test them in our new raised beds. My husband kindly raked these over for me, remarking that manure and compost seem to disappear in a clay soil like ours.
We got about fifty per cent germination success on these beans. Never mind. We don't have twenty five square metres times three in allotment space so the beans, properly spaced were sufficient to fill two of our raised beds. Now I was in the mood for sowing. So I intersowed radish (saved seed) with the beans, beet spinach in the next raised bed and pot marigolds in little pockets around the kitchen garden area.
On to the potting shed, where I sowed a packet of dwarf french beans we found in the charity shop today for 75p. Rather a lot in the packet. We may be swimming in french beans later this year. Maybe not, they were old seed to be used by December 2015. This is worth a try. Even fifty per cent would be good.
Tomorrow it's on to ruby chard in the next raised bed and observing how the lettuce and rocket that have been taken out of the greenhouse manage the night on the patio. The golden oregano, a burgeoning but tender herb, goes back inside.
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