Beans stop play!
Well, I managed to get up off my bum after a weekend of late nights and head outside to fill the raised beds I built last weekend. Despite the rain, the cold and the frozen soil I was out there, spade in hand, until I realised that dumping 8 inches of hard, cold soil on top of my slowly growing field beans would spell their doom once and for all. I couldn’t see a way out of this so I wandered about a bit scratching my head until I decided that I will give them an early Christmas present. They have until mid January to grow tall enough for me to start adding soil and manure to the beds - if they don’t then they will have to take their chances with being buried alive. I’m both cruel and kind at the same time - I think it’s what attracted the mistress of the house to me in the first place.
The picture above will take you to the field bean photo album, just look for the ones dated 18th Dec 05. Meanwhile, in other bean-related news, some particularly tenacious field beans are poking their snouts through over in the still-flooding soakaway.
M des C says:
Added on December 19th, 2005 at 5:55 pmAh, the art of the workable compromise! How well-balanced of you! good to see that the beans are hanging on in there.
Head Burro (blog author) says:
Added on December 19th, 2005 at 7:31 pmI am ying and, if you ask nicely, I’ll show you my yang
Allotment Lady says:
Added on December 19th, 2005 at 11:17 pmYour poor beans await a death methinks. I doubt very much that they will grow tall enough to poke above all that soil you propose to fill the beds in with - by January. Unless we have a mild warm spell that is.
Couldn’t you take pity on them if there are only a few and stick a lemonade bottle around them and then fill in with soil. Are they broad beans that you can eat, or just for an organic manure?
You should have plenty of plastic bottles after Crimbo. Milk bottles do well too to protect them. Depends if they are food though, if not it might not be worth all the trouble!
Merry Christmas to you and the mistress of the house - and your labouring dad who features greatly in the story of you transforming your garden!
What are you getting him for Christmas - something useful for him to use in the next phase of the Wild Burro makeover? LOL
Head Burro says:
Added on December 20th, 2005 at 7:14 amBloody Hell A.L., that’s what I call thinking! A cracking idea and no mistake! I’ve put the mistress of the house on ‘bottle watch’
The beans are just for manure, but I’m hoping their roots help condition the soil and provide a ‘drainage’ system to help the flooding.
As for the Head Head Burro, I’ve got him a few things but only one of them is gardening related