| Amethyst |
| Anasazi |
| Arranasco |
| Baby Red Soup |
| Black Box Pinto |
| Black Canterbury |
| Black Coco |
| Black Croatian |
| Black Eyed Pea |
| Black Turtle |
| Black Valentine |
| Blauhilde |
| Blue Lake |
| Bobis d'Albenga |
| Borlotti |
| Borlotti |
| Bridgewater |
| Brightstone |
| Canadian Wonder |
| Cannelini |
| Cardigan [Jersey Rogue] |
| Caseknife |
| Cherokee Trail of Tears |
| Chinese Long |
| Coco Bianco |
| Concador |
| Corona Di Spagna |
| Cose Violette |
| Cranberry Lilac |
| Dalmation |
| Dapple Grey |
| Early Warwick |
| Emperor of Russia |
| Ernie's Big Eye |
| Fagiolo di Spagna |
| Flavert |
| Gauk |
| Gigandes |
| Henderson Lima |
| Hidatsa |
| Horticultural Bird's Egg |
| Hutterite Soup |
| Ice Crystal Wax |
| Inca Pea Bean |
| Jacob's Cattle |
| Jersey |
| Kew Blue |
| Kinghorn Wax |
| Lazy Housewife Brown |
| Lazy Housewife White |
| Madeira Maroon |
| Major Cook's Bean |
| Marfax |
| Maria Zeller |
| Mayflower |
| Minidor Yellow |
| Monastic Coco |
| Mountaineer's Haf White Runner |
| Mr Fearn's Purple Flowered |
| Neckar Queen |
| Necktar Konigin |
| Norweigan Dry |
| Nun's Belly Button |
| O'Driscoll |
| Orca |
| Pea Bean |
| Pebble |
| Polebean |
| Polish |
| Provider |
| Rattlesnake |
| Red Calypso |
| Red Soup |
| Rice |
| Rio Zappe |
| Roqueen Court |
| Rose D'Eyragues |
| Royal Red |
| Ruth Bible |
| Ruud's mystery |
| Shirostruczkounia |
| Speckle Chucky |
| Sweet Australian Purple |
| Tar Heel |
| Tarbais |
| The Prince |
| Tiger/Tiger eye |
| Triomph De Farcy |
| Tung |
| Wild Pigeon |
| Wild Pigeon Rogue |
| Yardlong |
| Yellow |
| Yin Yang |
| Zuni |
Thursday, 16 December 2010
The Bean Project - 2010 and beyond
Further to last year's bean listings, I now have 96 types of bean to grow out over the next few years.....here's the listing as it stands today:
Seed Circle
Well, what a lovely surprise.
I am a member of 2 seed circles, one through the Grapevine and one through another forum [allotments for all] and this lovely packet was delivered through the door yesterday.
55 packets of lovely seeds!
When you collate the circle, you separate them all out for each member as they come in, so you get a feel for what's in the packs. but when someone else does it - it is a real surprise when the parcel arrives!
We have got several on the go this year [or should I say next year] - one for general seeds, one for tomatoes, one for peas and beans and one for chilis....so goodness only knows what selection box I'll have this time next year.
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Winter 2010
Brrrrr
We've had snow for a week now.....and we're beginning to get pretty annoyed with it.
I've not posted much on here this year for a couple of reasons.
Firstly - we had a huge pile of manure delivered in Jan - and spent weeks shovelling and spreading it across the plot. Then put the potatoes in. We had late frosts so I thought that was the reason we had dodgy looking haulms growing.
Unfortunately not. It was aminopyralid.
Wild? I was livid.
Still angry [we discovered it in May, and it's now December] and we lost lots of crops. Most of the spuds [a few were left to grow just because we couldn't be bothered to do anything with them] loads of onions that had to be moved, loads of beans [not happy], pumpkins and to be honest, we just thought we'd do what we could and write off 2010 as a bad job. The bad stuff was shovelled back off the plot, raked out, and it took us a month to get it into 3 stockpiles and a farmer was paid £300 to take it away and dispose of it. We of course lost at least £300 in crops and got nothing. As per usual - Dow look after the farmers and screw the rest of them.
So, on the 21st Dec starts a new year.
The few pumpkins we had - were left at the lottie until we could use them and lo and behold - the snow got them....
So - onward and upward. We are never having manure on our plot again....even though we've been offered some horse manure - the same farmer that supplier ours also supplies most of the village with the same straw his cows ate....so I am guessing that other people will still have a problem in the coming years.....but I've done my bit telling everyone and arranging for 3 people to have theirs removed.
The other reason of course is that I started a new job - working with 5 charity SEN schools to get them building and growing in their own organic veggie gardens on school sites. So the anger above was tempered with the ability to still grow veg around the southern half of the country. So I've been busy busy busy and having a great time!
So, on the 21st starts the new season proper. We currently have onion sets, potato onions and some garlic in the ground - but I will be sowing my main onions and a large amount of garlic and shallots in modules so that I can get started.
*I'm also writing a week-by-week guide for schools to use throughout the growing season telling them what they can do, what they should be doing, what they sow/grow and harvest each week/month. I'll be looking for school gardeners to have a look at this once it is written so any volunteers - please comment here and I'll get in touch.
I've also collected a few more beans for the project - and hopefully didn't lose an actual variety after the manure problem......more photos to follow soon.
Thanks for reading....and don't forget to collect those loo roll innerds for next year's beans!!!
We've had snow for a week now.....and we're beginning to get pretty annoyed with it.
I've not posted much on here this year for a couple of reasons.
Firstly - we had a huge pile of manure delivered in Jan - and spent weeks shovelling and spreading it across the plot. Then put the potatoes in. We had late frosts so I thought that was the reason we had dodgy looking haulms growing.
Unfortunately not. It was aminopyralid.
Wild? I was livid.
Still angry [we discovered it in May, and it's now December] and we lost lots of crops. Most of the spuds [a few were left to grow just because we couldn't be bothered to do anything with them] loads of onions that had to be moved, loads of beans [not happy], pumpkins and to be honest, we just thought we'd do what we could and write off 2010 as a bad job. The bad stuff was shovelled back off the plot, raked out, and it took us a month to get it into 3 stockpiles and a farmer was paid £300 to take it away and dispose of it. We of course lost at least £300 in crops and got nothing. As per usual - Dow look after the farmers and screw the rest of them.
So, on the 21st Dec starts a new year.
The few pumpkins we had - were left at the lottie until we could use them and lo and behold - the snow got them....
So - onward and upward. We are never having manure on our plot again....even though we've been offered some horse manure - the same farmer that supplier ours also supplies most of the village with the same straw his cows ate....so I am guessing that other people will still have a problem in the coming years.....but I've done my bit telling everyone and arranging for 3 people to have theirs removed.
The other reason of course is that I started a new job - working with 5 charity SEN schools to get them building and growing in their own organic veggie gardens on school sites. So the anger above was tempered with the ability to still grow veg around the southern half of the country. So I've been busy busy busy and having a great time!
So, on the 21st starts the new season proper. We currently have onion sets, potato onions and some garlic in the ground - but I will be sowing my main onions and a large amount of garlic and shallots in modules so that I can get started.
*I'm also writing a week-by-week guide for schools to use throughout the growing season telling them what they can do, what they should be doing, what they sow/grow and harvest each week/month. I'll be looking for school gardeners to have a look at this once it is written so any volunteers - please comment here and I'll get in touch.
I've also collected a few more beans for the project - and hopefully didn't lose an actual variety after the manure problem......more photos to follow soon.
Thanks for reading....and don't forget to collect those loo roll innerds for next year's beans!!!
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