invisibleplanet
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coriander seeds always have two plants inside them, and as they germinate they grow side by side, very close together, so I don't think it's coriander x
It's possible that only one seed from each seed case has germinated. It does look more like Parsley (Envy, a curly variety) than cilantro (coriander leaf) though.don't listen to me diddly!
I've sowed a load of bush borlotti which I'm going to put into the front garden when they've germinated as a beany hedge, along with 4 sets of pyramid-canes (4 canes in each pyramid) which will have butter beans climbing up (Spagna). The space there isn't suitable for the lavender hedges I can't really fill it full of the blue & purple tall flowers until at least September to give me early blooms in late spring of next year (for the cornflower especially). I can sow the Campanula (Bellflower), the Salvia Turkestana (Clary Sage) and the Love-in-a-mist now (Nigella Damascena 'Oxford Blue'). I adore Love-in-the-Mist - it's such a beautiful shade of blue. The Sea Holly needs to be sown in autumn too - I'm expecting to have to raise it indoors overwinter.I had the last of the broad beans last night, now I'm wishing we'd planted more but we ran out of space.
The potatoes are ready, and I spied the first (almost ready) courgette this morning.
ooh, learn something new every day. I plan to just leave it and hope it's happy (of course I'll water it)... gets morning sun only.coriander seeds always have two plants inside them, and as they germinate they grow side by side, very close together, so I don't think it's coriander x
It's possible that only one seed from each seed case has germinated. It does look more like Parsley (Envy, a curly variety) than cilantro (coriander leaf) though.
I've sowed a load of bush borlotti which I'm going to put into the front garden when they've germinated as a beany hedge, along with 4 sets of pyramid-canes (4 canes in each pyramid) which will have butter beans climbing up (Spagna). The space there isn't suitable for the lavender hedges I can't really fill it full of the blue & purple tall flowers until at least September to give me early blooms in late spring of next year (for the cornflower especially). I can sow the Campanula (Bellflower), the Salvia Turkestana (Clary Sage) and the Love-in-a-mist now (Nigella Damascena 'Oxford Blue'). I adore Love-in-the-Mist - it's such a beautiful shade of blue. The Sea Holly needs to be sown in autumn too - I'm expecting to have to raise it indoors overwinter.
They're Fagioli Bianchi di Spagna (Spanish White Beans) - this variety has been grown in Italy since 1530, after a monk received a present of beans from the Spanish court. They're a large, firm, thin-skinned, meaty white bean with a buttery texture and climbing habit (rampicante). Like all beans, they originated in South America, and have traditionally been a companion plant for corn and squash. In Spain, the main 'butter bean' is again a 'giant white bean' (not lima variety) 'Judion de la Granja', from Granja, near Leon. I'd like to try growing some of that variety next year, but obviously they won't be 'de la Granja anymore'. They are very expensive to buy here (around £8 per kilo).
They're traditionally used to make many different white (butter) bean recipes in Spain and Italy and over there they are generally sold in tins (or jars in Spain) and also dry as ''butter beans''. They are usually grown as a shelling bean, but you can eat the young undeveloped pods, but I wouldn't bother - there are other varieties of French bean (e.g. cobra) which are better for that. They are used in all butter bean recipes and better than butter beans because butter beans are more diffiult to digest and disintegrate too easily. They are used in soups, casseroles, salads and chances are if you buy tinned 'butter beans' anywhere in the med, they're actually a variety of the Spanish White Bean sold as 'butter beans', not butter (lima) beans. They also make a brilliant ''fava bean'' substitute in middle eastern 'ful' recipes too.
Recipe: FAGIOLI BIANCHI IN PINZIMONIO
I've just been outside to check on the plants in my lunch hour. It looks like I'll have some courgettes to pick soon. I planted one in the middle of my wigwam of runner beans which are now reaching the tops of their poles and the bean flowers are beginning to open. It's the first year for me growing any veg and although the tomatoes seem to be taking a time to swell and the mange-tout still don't have a proper home it's been very satisfying so far!
Wigwam courgettes are cool - my running cobra beans aren't very big yet, but I'm very happy to wake up to the second female flower today (bush marrow which I'll pick as courgette) from another of the six bush marrow plants
I hadn't really thought about the yellowing on that one leaf. It was planted in fresh vegetable compost which was supposed to have five week's worth of feed in it but I guess that's come to an end now. I'll put some tomorite (sp?)from time to time in the can when I water it from now on. Thanks for the advice.I think that yellowing on your courgette leaf is magnesium deficiency. They're very hungry plants @courgettes/marrows/squashes.