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to scaffolding boards - way to go!  Hi GeeWiz and Co. I have started quite a large veggie plot this year for the first time ever and I am growing potatoes, onions, broad beans, carrots, leeks, spinach, cabbages and runner beans. I've had some help from my Dad

Answer to Penny,My students absolutely love growing vegetables, but they like to take responsibility for their own plants (ie, these broad beans were planted by William and Jacob and so they are the ones to tie them in and pick them). Ownership

. Potatoes are good, as are broad beans, runner beans, onions and lettuce, but the only carrots we have managed to grow are in a pot, nearly ready to harvest, we haven't any beetroot, sown it 3 times and got nowhere. Soft fruit has cropped well, blackcurrants

that freeze well The Runner Beans which accidentally get left to grow big can be taken from the pod and cooked like Broad Beans if you don't require them for seed. I was delighted to see that, even with all their acres and the largest walled kitchen garden i

, though not because of pests, just because we got so sick of eating cabbages of all sorts last winter. It was the same story with turnips the year before... note to self, must stop growing things in such vast quantities. But I could eat any amount of broad

-lime-cake-with-lime-cream.html LOVE the idea of the potato and broad bean salad, Kate! I grew Pink Fir Apple this year and think they would be just right... I must say, at risk of sounding like a crawler, one of my favourite cake recipes is a bbc one: http

early-it depends on the temperatures-day and night Thanks geoff - I guess I'll just have to be patient ! Growing seeds in the greenhouse depends on what area you  live. I am north cornwall. I grow broad beans, sweetpeas in mine which is unheated. I do

of generous triangular zigzags, just for fun. And doing so has really jazzed up my display. Now I can make patterns with lettuces at the feet of broad beans with tall peas shooting up behind. It’s a bit like planning a mixed herbaceous border, but with veg

hasn't) done. But: my raspberries, rhubarb and gooseberries are great, my mangetout have been good, and my broad beans not quite the total failure I expected when I saw the extent of the chocolate spot on them. The lavenders and climbing hydrangea look

of flower and veg seeds, all the flowers have germinated, and most of the veg has i,ll let you know more when i do the carrots raddish, when its warm enough, the only things i had a problem with was my runners beans, the broad beans were and are fine