Having been late starting this year, I picked my first load of food from the plot this weekend and it was well worth the wait. We’ve been eating the rocket and chard for a while but there’s now some small carrots, courgettes, spuds, and broad beans. The smaller beans are ridiculously tasty – washing off [...]
Posts Tagged ‘blackfly’
Coming along
Posted in c2b, tagged blackfly, brassicas, broad beans, compost on 15 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blackfly breeding in the dead of night
Posted in c2b, tagged blackfly, broad beans, french beans on 2 June, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I spent most of yesterday afternoon down the plot. The intention was to get on with the dreaded thinning but, as ever, I found something else to take up most of my time – cleaning blackfly eggs off of my nascent broad and french beans.
I’ve no idea if this will work or not but [...]