This month we will mainly be eating spinach

This has got to be one of the best vegetables known to man. Great in salads or cooked, easy to grow, quick to crop, cut and come again and the seeds are nice and big for planting. The variety I have been growing is Fiorano which is supposed to be mildew resistant and it grows like the clappers. Maybe I should turn over the flowerbeds to spinach production.

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The tumbling compost bin

Finally the tumbling compost bin has arrived ordered through an offer in the BBC Gardeners World magazine. Collecting up a large amount of material for a big first load and then I’ll just have to see if it works. As well as playing with an empty compost bin I’ve also planted out my broad beans. They are The Sutton, a dwarf variety, and seem to be quite happy in their new home.

It’s not just vegetables

There is a garden outside the veg beds and it is making slow progress. A skip is booked to get rid of the waste soil/rumble that has accumulated on the “lawn area”. In the meantime I put up the two 6ft square trellis panels to make some space in the garage. Going to plant climbers in pots to go up it as a backdrop to the patio area. Now all that is left is remove the waste rubble, dig out the old “2-flag patio”, dig over and plant the other flower bed, dig over the lawn area, lay the lawn…………. Think I’ll just thin out some carrots instead.

Into the big bad world

The cabbages and climbing French beans are getting to big for the growhouses and needed to go out. The cabbages are a pointed summer variety called Hispi grown in modules and I’ve put cabbage collard on to keep out the root fly. I’m gowing the beans in a large wooden trough full of rich organic material. The beans are called Cobra and have black beans inside a green pod. It will be interesting to see if the cane construction will stand up to the wind.