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Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 3:04 pm Post subject: Re: A good dent is made in the allotment!

Jeff wrote:

... I've been for a clearing mission to the new allotment twice now, once with my brother, ...

It's much easier with a spade; unless his name's Doug...

Jeff

Joined: 23 Feb 2005
Posts: 145
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 3:07 pm Post subject:
Judith, I'm not going to start planting it up until Spring and until then I'll just be adding manure and turning the soil getting plenty of air and goodness into it... I've got some nice winter goodies coming on well in the back garden so I'm able to be patient with the plot...

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 3:07 pm Post subject:
Sounds like a good plan.

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 6:48 pm Post subject:
I don't go to the gym, its not me, but i think the working over of land is much better exercise-and you get to see something for it!

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 05 6:54 pm Post subject:
well done

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 05 8:32 am Post subject:
Garlic and broad beans, garlic and broad beans. Do it now!!!!!!!!

Jeff

Joined: 23 Feb 2005
Posts: 145
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 05 9:04 am Post subject:
I know.... OK, I think I might just get a patch of Garlic in, not Broad beans cos nobody eats them... Literally just buy some pods, break them up and plant the cloves, right???

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 05 9:21 am Post subject:

PM Tahir - he may have a couple of bulbs going, if not try Kings Seeds. Yes just break up the bulb and plant each clove about 8 inches to a foot apart, no mopre than 2 inches deep. Keep weed free in the spring and they'll be ready about late June early July and then you can follow with French Beans.

Broad Beans - heretic! Eat them when they are obscenely young not when they are big and smell of socks. Like sweetcorn, you've never had them at their best. I almost exclusively eat them in HFW's broad bean and chorizo recipe with some rice. Heaven, Im looking forward to May already. You can follow them with cabbages or your Christmas brussels who'll appreciate the nitrogen fixed by the beans.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45699
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 05 9:22 am Post subject:

Jeff wrote:

I know.... OK, I think I might just get a patch of Garlic in

I've got garlic, B had some that he wasn't expecting so I've got 3 heads I can give you

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 05 10:34 am Post subject:
Another passionate defender of the broad bean here. Don't listen to anyone else. Plant loads - they are delicious! I was really chuffed this morning to see that the old broad bean plants I left in from this season as an experiment had all sprouted again from the bottom and I can see at least a dozen little pods and quite a few flowers coming along.

culpepper

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 638
Location: Kent

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 05 12:13 pm Post subject:
Good going!Only another 8 trips and you'll have the whole lot clear then

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 05 10:57 pm Post subject:
I will "third" that on broad beans, try them, you must. They can be eaten at the less likely times of the year and if you have not had them straight from the plant then you are not in a position to judge properly.

Anna-marie

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
Posts: 980
Location: West Wales

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 05 9:59 am Post subject:

Well done, Jeff!!

Hope your back is not too sore!!

Broad beans are totally different when you have grown them yourself.
I don't normally like them, either, but have really enjoyed some when home-grown, especially if served with loads of mash. Bacon goes very well with this.
Get a pig!! He will clear the land for you, and you can eat him afterwards with your broad beans!!

Good luck with the rest of your allotment.
Anna-marie

hermil

Joined: 04 Sep 2005
Posts: 42
Location: Manchester

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 05 5:47 pm Post subject:
I love broad beans. I eat a lot of them in salads so they don't even last long enough to be cooked. The trick is to pick them before they get old, when they do lose some of their flavour, and the skin hardens up. A variety I always grow is "The Sutton" - it doesn't need staking and is very prolific. Before I had an allotment it used to do really well in containers.

Mad Dad

Joined: 12 May 2005
Posts: 407
Location: Nowhere near where I want to be

Posted: Sun Oct 16, 05 8:56 pm Post subject:
I have to echo the sentements of the Broad Bean defenders....A broad bean that you have grown yourself will taste much better than any other you have tasted especially if you harvest before the pods are 4in in length. Eat them raw or with the shortest of blanchings and I promise you will enjoy them. If i'm wrong please feel free to berate me next year.....

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