Legumes etc

Runner beans still producing vast quantities. Need to be constantly picking them though to obtain good crop. Going straight in the freezer. Mange tout are coming into their own now. Although we only planted 3 as a test run and only 2 plants seem to be thriving, I got a good handful of crop today. Thinking about it, the main crops next year are going to be Spuds (goes without saying), broccoli, beans and mangetout. To be perfectly honest, the greenhouse is a mess at the moment. I sowed the right sort of seeds for the season in rows and waited to see what happened. What I found happened was, not all seeds would germinate - with a few of the others succumbing to caterpillars, leaving large gaps for weeds and previously seeded potatoes to grow in their place. Now unfortunately, some of the weeds look like potato plants and I've not been able to tell the difference, so anything other than the crop in the row has been pulled and as it's a greenhouse that is watered regularly, the weeds have grown again - within a week. Next year I'll be more careful to make sure that once the seeds have germinated, to carefully transplant the strongest ones into the proper rows and anything standing out of line will be destroyed... Whoa, This gardening lark is turning me into a fascist. I also need to remember that even though legumes fix nitrogen from the air, they still require other nutrients, so I'll do what is says in the book and dig some trenches... although unlike the fruit bushes, I'll make sure that the manure has been completely rotted.

Learning curve.

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