Бататовые итоги.

Бататовые Кущи - Бататовые итоги:

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Beans and Herbs.

Beans and Herbs:
Organic Vegetable and Herb seed collection

When collected from the nursery, plants cost £2.50 for a 7cm pot and £4.50 for 13cm pot.

The Herbary
161 Chapel Street,
Horningsham,
Wiltshire
BA12 7LU
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5 Easy Ways to Assess Your Soil for Gardening.

5 Easy Ways to Assess Your Soil for Gardening | Eartheasy Blog

How to Dry and Store Scarlett Runner Beans.

How to Dry and Store Scarlett Runner Beans | Eartheasy Blog:

Great in stews all through the winter.
Eating the shucked beans
Scarlett Runner beans are usually eaten as fresh green ‘string’ beans in the pod. However, if you have a surplus of dried beans, they can be cooked and served in meals. These beans cannot be eaten raw.

To prepare the shucked beans for eating, first soak the dried beans in cold water for 12 hours. They are then cooked for approximately 2 hours, or until tender.
Beans harvested in autumn do not need be soaked and are soft and cooked in about 30 minutes. When using scarlet runner beans in salads, be sure to add some salt to the cooking water.

What to grow
- French beans,
- some varieties of runner bean,
- along with beans such as haricot,
- cannellini and the
- pea bean
- are all suitable for growing for drying;
you can even enjoy a limited harvest of fresh pods before leaving the remainder to mature and swell.
My favourites for sheer good looks are
- the borlotti beans – look out for Italian-named varieties such as ‘Lingua di Fuoco' (Fire tongue) and ‘Centofiamme' (100 Flames).
Another tried-and-tested variety for drying is runner bean ‘Czar' whose fat, creamy beans make excellent butter beans.
Explore the seed catalogues, most of which will have a small selection of beans specifically recommended for the dry treatment.

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Mark's Veg Plot: My garden plan

Mark's Veg Plot: My garden plan: "The vegetable-production part of my garden has for many years been based upon six raised beds, each 1 metre wide and 2.4 metres long.
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PickYourOwn.

PickYourOwn.Org.uk link to a farm website at http://www.glenfarm.webs.com:
PickYourOwnFarms.org.uk
- Glen Farm Holtwood Holt Forest (between Holt and Holtwood) Wimborne BH21 7DY
- Pythouse Kitchen Garden Café & Shop West Hatch, Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6PA
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Чеснок. Garlic.

Посажен чеснок:
Hardneck (Hardneck varieties are ideal if you want to grow garlic scapes but still want a crop of garlic bulbs too. - tops and roots! - 'Lautrec Wight')

'Elephant Garlic' - is technically in the leek family, does not store for very long. -

Softneck (Softneck tends to store better.)
- 'Early Purple Wight' ( One of the earliest to crop with bulbs ready for harvesting from as early mid May!)
- 'Solent Wight' (one of the best for its overall eating and keeping qualities.)
- 'Germidour' (produces large, white bulbs with a mild but rich flavour.)

VITAL TIP! Do not let your garlic dry out in a drought. If it lacks water it will go dormant and the bulbs will not grow to a good size. So whilst you want well drained soil so it diesn't rot, you also want it to be irrigated in dry spells.
Choose a permanent location.
Although many gardeners might disagree, garlic actually prefers to be grown in the same spot. An obvious example of this is its relatives chives and perennial onions.
The exception would be in the rare case that your garlic gets hit with rust or white rot; otherwise, give it a forever home.
That a garlic bed should be fertilized twice.
At planting time and again when the ground thaws in the spring, add bone meal, blood meal.

Ken Muir - Strawberry 'Gariguette' - Pack of 12.

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By planting a strawberry bed in the early fall months, the strawberry plants are able to fully establish themselves and their root system prior to going dormant for the winter.  Then, as the temperatures rise in the late winter or early spring months, a fully-rooted and more mature plant begins to put forth new foliage and flower stalks.  Instead of pinching off the strawberry flowers so that the roots can establish, the already-established roots pull water and nutrients from the soil to support the growing strawberries.  This allows a healthy harvest during the first growing season instead of the second!
Additionally, most mail order nurseries will ship strawberry plugs with intact roots for fall planting.  This helps the plants establish more quickly than bareroot plants and helps minimize the number of plants that die (more plugs survive than do shipped and planted bareroot plants).
Why not consider buying and planting some fall strawberry plants instead of waiting until the spring?!
The most important, however, is so that you do not have to pinch or snip the flowers off of your spring-planted strawberries.  Yay for 1st-year harvests!
- Borage helps - one borage plant every 1 m in the center of the matted row should be sufficient.
Space the strawberry plants at least 35 centimetres apart.
Leave at least 60 centimetres between rows of strawberries.

Cover the plants in late fall with 4 more inches of straw mulch. Leave this on all winter, until you see strawberry leaves take on a yellow tint in the spring. When frosts are forecast, add a wool blanket on top for additional protection. Secure the blanket over the bed by placing bricks at the corners. Remove the blanket when the cold spell breaks. Sensitive strawberries can die from cold damage if not protected.

Чеснок по-китайски с русским акцентом.

Садовое обозрение - Чеснок по-китайски с русским акцентом:
Важное в китайском методе – схема посадки. (расстояние, протравление и окучиванние!) Для посадки озимого чеснока берут сухие, хорошо освещенные участки, где летом росли бобовые или зеленные культуры, кабачки, капуста, тыква или огурцы. После других культур нельзя, так как есть угроза поражения чеснока нематодой и фузариозом, а почва под чесноком и луком устала.

Грядки.

Осенью после уборки урожая их заряжаю на новый сезон вот так: мотыгой отрываю поперёк участок примерно 0,5 метра засыпаю полу-перепревшим субстратом состоящим из опилок и травы короче очищаю вольер где гуляют куры у меня зимой и летом он крытый. хватает примерно на 4 грядки. Так вот засыпал слой,отрываю следующий участок а этой землёй присыпаю то что насыпал и так до конца грядки. Грядка опять получается до краёв наполнена, сею горчицу сразу, поливаю и покрываю до всходов. И так каждый год.