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Plant supports for beans and sweet peas
Posted by: Pippa Greenwood, 01 May 2008, 11.33AM
The weather has been pretty grotty lately, and I've had to grab every possible opportunity to get out in the garden. I don't think I've ever been so far behind with sowing and planting fruit and vegetable crops.
This time last year my courgettes were planted out and in flower. Admittedly it was during the mini heat wave and I was experimenting to see just what I could get away with. But this year there's no way I'd dare put half of my young vegetable plants out into the wilds of the garden. Who knows what could happen to them â they might be blown away or even drowned!
But, during occasional bursts of sunshine, we've been in the garden doing what we can. In their own plots my two kids have been hard at it. Last week, while I was busy trying to get to grips with some compacted soil around the raspberries, they were preparing the ground for planting. I soon noticed that the last of my sweet peas in pots had disappeared (they should of course have been planted out ages ago). I found them planted in my children's plots, complete with home-made plant supports. According to my children "when the beans grow they can use the wigwams too", because "you did say that sweet peas help to encourage the bees to pollinate them".
The wigwams are both attractive and sturdy, and made by my son using recycled bamboo canes and his own ball of string. This is just a gentle reminder that we could all benefit from a little more initiative in the garden from time to time.
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04 May 2008, 07.11PM
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