Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
Serves 2 200g shelled Broad Beans1 crushed garlic clove, several garlic scapes, or Chives10 or so leaves of Mint, chopped up2 tablespoons olive oil2 teaspoons of lemon juiceBlack pepper100g FetaSalad leaves 1. Put garlic (or chopped alternatives) into a …
Broad beans in the kitchen garden. You can see the first beans are almost ready to pick. It’s the time of year to start planning those broad bean meals, as the first crops should be ready to harvest soon. …
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a gardener without a garden, must be sad sight indeed. Ok, I’m not completely without a garden. But between selling our house, moving, and my ME being bad, I’ve not been able to …
Spoonie veg rating: 3 After garlic, I think Broad Beans are my favourite vegetable. Whilst it’s only a short season of cropping broad beans, those (approx) six weeks are just heavenly to me. There is something about freshly picked and …
Harvests include flowers for the house Harvest time. It’s that moment we are all working towards all year, after all that sowing, tending staking and watering. When we finally get to pick the fruits of our labour. I decided last …
“I’m going to sow some broad beans”. It sounds like a simple enough task. Like you can just pop outside for a few minutes and quickly sow the beans. But of course it isn’t so straight-forward. Before you sow you …
1st July 2012 The front garden has grown up a lot since we last visited it, back at the beginning of May. June was missed as I was on holidays then and when I got back, work rather took over. …
Narcissi amongst the strawberries I’m a bit behind with the sowing of seeds both in pots and down at the lottie. Today I managed to catch up a bit on both. I have found that I have no luck sowing …
I finally managed to get to the Lottie on Sunday and wow, what a broad bean harvest. I collected 6 kilos of broad beans! This equalled 1.5 kilos once shelled. I’m afraid I cannot show you the lovely broad bean, …
As mentioned previously, I’m experimenting with not pinching out the tips of broad beans this year to see if it makes any difference with black fly. So far my experiement is going well. I’ve had some black fly on a …