It’s not cheap, buying a cloche. Worried that the ground might still be a bit too cold for the broad beans I did look them up online, but I really need 12 and that would cost upwards of £30. At that price you may as well go back to buying your veg in the shops.
I could get a little tunnel but that wouldn’t be much cheaper, so instead I headed into the outhouse and dug out the plastic bottles from the recycling bag, cut six of them in half and went to the plot to put them in the ground.
I couldn’t exactly remember where the beans where. I’ve put a tab beside each one, of course, but after the heavy rains on Sunday afternoon the ground has been pretty well smoothed out and there are no tell-tale dents or mounds to show how far they were from each tab.
So I’ve made a best guess and we’ll see how they get on. They should catch the sun and keep the ground a little warmer than it is right now and, hopefully, even if I haven’t got them quite right that warmth should radiate out a bit and hopefully reach the beans. I can always move the little cloches when they start to sprout, after all.
It’s like double recycling. They get used in the garden now, and when the beans are on their way they get dropped back into the recycling bag to be made into something else. Perhaps a proper cloche.
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