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the gardenPlant tulip bulbs in groups to make drifts of spring colourAfter first frosts, lift and store dahlia tubers Plant evergreen shrubs and conifersFlowersPick ripe apples and pearsFinish harvesting marrows, squashes, onions and potatoesSow broad beans

. Others are collected and sown in pots in a more organised manner. Among the seeds I've saved this year are foxglove, hellebore, columbine, scabious, Jacob's ladder, snapdragon and calendula.Around my plot I leave lettuce, mizuna, watercress, broad beans

their beans! I intend to leave plenty of pods to fully mature as the beans are very useful in stews etc. long after you get bored with the pods. I simply freeze the beans while they are still plump (similar to harvesting broad beans) and make sure

first week of june to plant my courgetts and outdoor toms and runner beans. Any advice of atlantic punkings got 4 plants of a mate for my son but have not got a clue how two grow them. I have dared to put out some climibg french beans, broad beans

at this time or into March.?????? Thank you.....Brian   Widow68@yahoo.com Broad beans would be good can be planted now-I would start them off in pots as the soils is rather claggy at the moment As regards spacing you need to leave room to earth up and walk

It's the ‘Gourmet grower’ and ‘Allotmenteer’ packs that I'm finding most useful. Early potatoes planted this week will have produced tasty new potatoes for harvest in June, while broad beans sown outside into warm soil should have their first pods for picking

to grow fruit and veg. We have runner, French and broad beans, spinach, chard, courgettes and some wonderful raspberries originally grown by my granny.The runner, French and broad beans were heavily infested with blackfly when I visited two weeks ago. But

early garlicFollow our video guide to sowing broad beans

? when does the new series of gardeners world start? It started yesterday, Friday 9 March.     You can always see it on I-player. last year i had over 40 cucumbers in the shade with little sun, they are great! We grow runner beans,brocoli, broad beans

with questions on how best to overwinter it. He's hooked.Wary of low light levels and leggy seedlings, I've set up a small lamp over my heated propagator. It looks a bit like an SAD lamp for plants, but hopefully it will do the trick. Tomatoes and broad beans