Squash and Dwarf French Beans
Squash saplings
We’re starting to run low on beans. We took another 580 grams from the runners and 225 grams from the French on Wednesday, and while there are a few slim pickings left on the runners, the French are pretty well exhausted.
I think that’s down to growing them in pots rather than the ground, as the beans growing in the allotments I cycle past each morning are still in full flower and don’t look like they’ve even started cropping yet.
So it’s good to see that their replacements - the dwarf French beans we planted a couple of weeks ago - are making sure and steady progress. As with the first batch of beans, they took a few days to appear, but now that they have they’re streaking ahead, with three poking out of large pots, and two coming up out of the plot, where they’ll have plenty of room to stretch their roots. There are four others in the plot that have yet to appear.
Meanwhile, my concerns about the sproutability of the expensive squash seeds were unfounded, as all 12 of the dozen we planted are now up and out of the compost, sporting two strong leaves. I’m wondering, now, where I’m going to put them when it comes time to plant them on. Hopefully by then my lettuces will be ready for pulling, but I’d more or less earmarked their spot for the cabbages that are coming on nicely in the greenhouse. They’re looking a bit leggy at the moment, so I’m thinking they really do need to be moved sooner rather than later.
Dwarf French Beans
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