The Beauty of Nature

I have to admit that I didn’t go to Egypt to get these beans. I took a few from a botanical garden which shall remain nameless as I loved the colour. And got told off for it, but they didn’t take the beans back.

Anyway, I dried them out last year and hey presto, they have grown this year. They were not as quick to shoot as the traditional ones, but they have begun to do the job now. I will be having some in the week to try them out. 🙂

Here are a selection of my pumpkins. I know they are not orange this year, but I do have a track record of growing green ones as well.

One of these was a seed planted from a pumpkin I bought in a supermarket! Well you have to try don’t you. 🙂

Here are some of my squash. They look rather good in their yellow jackets. I’m looking forward to soup, pasta and all sorts of food with them.

Here is a quick, and rather shaky, look round my plot (I must get a real video recorder).

You can see the beetroot first and then my beans. I have two varieties, the usual UK one and the dark ones which are from Egypt.

After that you see my courgette – doing very well. I let one get rather big, but I find that if you do it really does provide a good base for soup. It produces enough for saving and having during the week.

After that you see the squash and pumpkin – all doing well. I have trimmed off the trailers today to focus them on the fruit they have already started. No point if having hundreds when I cant eat that many.

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I’m not sure if this is friend or foe. It doesn’t look native to these shores, so it could well be an invader. Still, they do eat ahipds and the like, even if they eat ladybirds as well! Greedy cannibal things.

Here are a selection of the things growing on my plot. As you can see they are coming on well and should be edible soon.

Here are the courgette and squash/pumpkin. They are doing well this year so I am pleased. Should be lots of squash and pumpkin later in the year.

I have dug up my onions now. They are laid out drying in the garage where it is cool, but not cold and they are protected from the rain. There sure is a strong smell in the garage now! 😉

I have left the potatos in the ground this year as I seem to be being given them by everyone. I will take them out and store later on, but not hust yet. They will be fine in the ground, as long as the slugs leave them alone.

I felt I ought to do some weeding today to keep them down. That done I was able to see where my crops actually were. Ooops.