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“The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in our imagination.”
– Terri Guillemets
Forage in January for:
Alexanders, Dandelion Leaves, Rosehips, Cleavers, Burdock Roots, Chickweed
Tag Archives: Beans
Wordless Wednesday – All about my plot
Posted in Food, The home garden, Vegetables, Wordless
Tagged #Growyourown, #GYO, Beans, Gardening, iPhone photography, vegetables
2 Comments
Six on Saturday … don’t amount to a (small) hill of beans
06-10-2018 Lovely, it’s raining hard. I’m grateful, I really am, but I can’t help wishing it would do it at night … when I am not walking the dog or wanting to dig up some ground elder. Easier to justify … Continue reading
Posted in autumn, Food, Plants
Tagged #SixOnSaturday, Beans, Echium, Gardening, Hops, nerines, Photography, Six on Saturday, Walnuts
15 Comments
In a Vase on Monday – Beans
I’ve been picking drying beans for the last few days and shucking them to store as they get nice and crunchy. It’s a therapeutic task for a while, but then gets tedious, so I do them in batches. I love … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Nature, The home garden, Vegetables
Tagged Beans, Gardening, Harvest, Horticulture, In a vase on Monday, pea beans
24 Comments
I’ve grown courgettes … marrows
We’ve been away and I am sure that I am not alone in that the first thing that I do on returning is to run around house making sure that all the indoor plants have survived, giving any drooping specimens … Continue reading
Posted in Food, The home garden, Vegetables
Tagged Beans, Courgettes, Gardening, Harvest
10 Comments
Climbing Beans: Wigwams or tents?
We grow a lot of beans in the vegetable patch each year. Being a vegetarian family, they are one of the staples of summer for us. We mostly eat the beans freshly picked, it is only as the season ends … Continue reading
Posted in The home garden, Vegetables
Tagged Beans, climbing, nature, slugs, snails, Support, vegetables
11 Comments