Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Markymarkmark May 2020 11:54am, 5 May 2020 11,315 posts	0 Markymarkmark I have also now planted butternut squash, some parsnips in metal tubes recovered from an old TV stand last month (i.e. home made "root trainers", and others in small narrow pots recycled from the carrots I bought (cheat!), and "sprinkled" assorted flower seeds I found in the back of the box around the back edges of the flower beds.
Fragile Do Not Bend May 2020 11:56am, 5 May 2020 5,880 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend I’m impatient to see signs of life from my potatoes, planted them 10 days ago.
jacdaw May 2020 2:30pm, 5 May 2020 3,034 posts	0 jacdaw Field beans are just small broad beans. I grow them; they are lovely fresh and dry nicely. Hodmedods grow and sell them in the UK as people food, and the split ones make great dal. When farmers get a nice clean crop of the pale coloured ones they sell them to Egypt etc. for ful medames and falafel. It's crazy we import lentils, navy beans, soy beans, chick peas, but feed fava beans to cows! I got mine from here: realseeds.co.uk before the world went mad.
Rosehip May 2020 6:35pm, 5 May 2020 15,900 posts	0 Rosehip - I don't like soybeans or chickpeas or lentils, maybe that's why I don't like field beans? but I do love broad beans so maybe I'm just odd! Got side-tracked with the pretty side of the garden today, planted out my "hot lips" grown from cuttings taken from mum's neighbour's huge plant - I hope they survive Have just been out and thrown bubble wrap and random packaging materials over the spuds that hadn't enough grass clippings on them - just in case the temp drops a degree or two below that forecast.
sallykate May 2020 8:18pm, 5 May 2020 6,355 posts	0 sallykate I love the look of hot lips but I also love purple so I went for amethyst lips. I had lots of wireworm in my allotment spuds last year (no surprise as it was previously covered in grass) so I've not planted any there this year. I've gone for just a few at home but I'm not sure they'll grow, they were an impulse buy from Poundstretcher and looked a bit dry.
Rosehip May 2020 8:23pm, 5 May 2020 15,905 posts	0 Rosehip I've got a really deep purple one on almost black stems that I love too (can't remember it's name!)
D2 May 2020 10:40pm, 5 May 2020 11,669 posts	0 D2 Frost forecast for tonight so I spent quite a bit of time covering up my potatoes that are now almost too big to earth up any more. Always a risk planting early some years I get away with it, let see how my plants fare after next weekend!
Angus Clydesdale May 2020 12:00am, 6 May 2020 17,887 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale Cold out there now.
Rosehip May 2020 7:20am, 6 May 2020 15,908 posts	0 Rosehip I can see frost on part of the village green, but it probably stayed just above freezing in the garden, glad I wasn't tempted to put anything too delicate out yet though. Must get a new max-min thermometer and start tracking the weather like dad used to.
Columba May 2020 3:18pm, 6 May 2020 19,702 posts	0 Columba Been digging out the weeds which have established themselves around the raspberries.