I was running around yesterday, preparing a frame to grow runner beans on, scarlet runners with their bright red flowers. I put this immediately back of the new hedge row planted last year, hoping to supplement the nitrogen supply to the hedge as well as provide an flowering background.
I shot off some snaps of the garden using a digital camera, which I am not to adapt at using. Some of the pictures are attached. I will improve on these later. One picture shows the cold frame, with various seedling, mostly visible are the squash and courgettes, but there are also basil, tomatoes, sunflowers, and others to be seen if you look closely. The second photo is the main part of the vegetable patch, with fennel, an onion/leek bed, mange tout, to the right, broad beans to the left, and various brassica behind, with cime de rapa in full blossom. Close inspection will also reveal apple, nectarine, and cherry trees.
Tip: Tomatoes: to ensure there is no calcium shortage, liquidise your eggshells and spread around the tomatoes. Liquidising will speed up the calcium release and uptake and thereby strengthen the plants.
