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but my vegetables certainly have. The beans have grown well beyond the tops of their poles and have produced a good few handfuls to harvest, which will sort out a few meals this week.My herbs and rocket have rocketed away and are good for a few salads

with the easy crops I've mentioned above, then expand their horizons with broccoli, carrots, sweet peppers, peas, sweet corn, beans and courgettes. So you're giving them several things all in one go: the freshest, tastiest food, veg-growing know-how, fun

of the prolonged cold remains to be seen, yet I’m convinced that the aphids starting breeding earlier than ever this year. My dwarf runner beans, growing in massive pots, were the first victims, followed by the overwintering geraniums and pelargoniums

an even larger one.I've no idea what befell Stumpy. Perhaps a fight with another fox, or a local dog. Car accident? Seems unlikely. Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox had his brush shot off by Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean, but I'm fairly certain

Fruit & vegPlant strawberry runners in hanging basketsOrder seedlings and bedding plants from suppliersSow dwarf French beans in a large pot Greenhouse15 minutesLearn how to give your mower a regular service

for planting from late autumnFinish picking beans, but leave a few pods to ripenFruit & vegSow sweet peas Continue harvesting chillies, peppers and other cropsReduce watering potted tuberous begoniasGreenhouse1 hourPlanting a small tree

beans, so one sowing should be enough. runner beans are easy, reliable, and their flowers are decorative enough for them to grow up a fence, trellis or arch, or in a deep container on the patio. They are truly space saving, and add vertical interest too

gardener – naturally gave me the bit of garden she didn’t want: a north-facing bindweed-ridden patch of earth beneath an apple tree. There I grew courgettes, carrots, lettuce and runner beans. I harvested the carrots too early (how my mum laughed

they have a chance to start reproducing. We always suffer greenfly on our peas and beans, and if the colonies get out of control the shoots starts to curl and wilt under the onslaught of so much sap-sucking. Get in there Jenny.Not really being a birder, I

. Seedlings need watering, as do flowering broad beans and garlic.I'm anxious to get tender crops planted outside so that I can set-up an automatic watering system in the greenhouse for my tomatoes and cucumbers. Chillies, sweet peppers and aubergines grow