Comments on: How does my Garden Grow? http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/how-does-my-garden-grow/ From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere... Sat, 18 May 2013 13:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/how-does-my-garden-grow/#comment-15222 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:04:57 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3798#comment-15222 The French beans are all in mourning for their hopes of a French Tour de France winner, I suppose…

@John, if you want runners you’re going to have to grow them yourself!

]]> By: John Gibson http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/how-does-my-garden-grow/#comment-15221 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:42:53 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3798#comment-15221 I can’t find runner beans anywhere, and my wife loves a chutney that is made from them, but which we have not seen about lately.
John

]]> By: emma c http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/how-does-my-garden-grow/#comment-15219 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:18:47 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3798#comment-15219 Ach, I don’t bother with french beans. I know what you mean with the runner beans all heading up the one pole. I have given up trying to re-direct them, just end up snapping the tops off the tender blighters! It’s not too late to plant a new lot though. Up to july apparently, I recently read on my seed packet. We mustn’t give up hope.. Well done on the beetroot front. I am envious :-)

]]> By: Andy in Germany http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/how-does-my-garden-grow/#comment-15218 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:41:17 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3798#comment-15218 It’s comforting to know I’m not the only one having trouble with French Beans: they’re noticably rubbish in the Very Smallholding this year despite everything else growing well. Some have been eaten by mice, two were dug up by something and one just fell over and died on me.

]]> By: Rosa Graziadei http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/how-does-my-garden-grow/#comment-15214 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 22:30:18 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3798#comment-15214 I love this post your garden is gorgeous, I am an expiring gardener I would love if you could check out my blog and leave some tips about how to help my garden survive!
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]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/how-does-my-garden-grow/#comment-15213 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:58:50 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3798#comment-15213 yes, salad leaves are doing well, and my spring onions are bigger than my leeks!

]]> By: Anonymous http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/how-does-my-garden-grow/#comment-15211 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:50:05 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3798#comment-15211 our beans (dwarf, french) are also hopeless this year – and I’ve always seen them as pretty fail-safe. Good mangetout and salad leaves though. And celtuce – celery flavoured leaves – we should be eating that every day. And there were plenty of raspberries, but they are next to the bike shed, so I think John been eating them as post breakfast and pre dinner snacks.

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