{"id":117,"date":"2007-10-08T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/files\/archives\/117"},"modified":"2009-09-04T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T11:09:35","slug":"doing-a-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/doing-a-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing a Runner."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s the end of the season now and most things I had been growing have finally given up for the year.<\/p>\n<p>These runner beans for instance were the last of their kind. I let them grow so I could collect the beans for next years plants.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/rbeans3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/rbeans3.jpg\" alt=\"runnerbeans - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see there were not many left on the plant. Runner beans are good nitrogenators of the soil. So they will put back more than they use. Next year I will move them to another patch so they can add to the soil there.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/rbeans4.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.budsandborders.co.uk\/wp-content\/pics\/rbeans4.jpg\" alt=\"runnerbeans - click to enlarge\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took these picture a little while ago as I let them grow on a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of my day at the plot was spent getting rid of weeds and clearing some of the ground by using weed killer on it. It shouldn&#8217;t do any harm to the crops next year.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that some of my fellow plot holders had bought in piles of manure. One had a huge pile that could have covered the whole plot an inch deep! I thought that was a bit over the top as you really only need to dig in some manure closer the the season. I will get mine from a friend and of course I have the spent hops from the brewery as well. These I will be variously holding on to or digging in as and when I plant. Some vegetables cant be planted with manure as it burns them, so that does need to be dug in ahead of time, but mostly they love a good bit of horse dung to start them off.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see anyone at the plot yesterday, so I guess they have all been during the week &#8211; lucky them to have the time really. Some of us still have to work 9 to 5.<\/p>\n<p>The winter sprouts are doing well, buds have formed and should be good at Christmas and beyond. Also the parsnips and swede are doing well.<\/p>\n<p>I finally took down my tomatoes and put the last few on the windowsill to ripen. We have had a bumper crop this year and I have frozen quite a bit for later use. I have also been using them for my lunches in the week and in any cooking I do. You cant beat home grown tomatoes for flavour, especially when used with home grown chiilies. Although I didn&#8217;t get a bumper crop of those &#8211; for obvious reasons &#8211; there are still a good few and of course, last years dried crop have lasted as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s the end of the season now and most things I had been growing have finally given up for the year. These runner beans for instance were the last of their kind. I let them grow so I could collect the beans for next years plants. As you can see there were not many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"views":296,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/budsandborders.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}