Out & About Summer 2021

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A piece of fleece or polythene wrapped around the outside of the bean sticks approximately 40cm high for a week will help protect those delicate leaves. Make sure your beans have some substantial stakes in with the canes –if you use canes – the current winds we get nowadays will easily blow over a weak line of beans, snap the canes and probably pull the beans out of the ground. I planted Savoy Cabbage,

O&A SUMMER 2021 There is so much to learn on gardening and every season is different so what I write now may not be in context for next year, who knows! 71 January King Cabbage and Black Kale seed in the greenhouse and pricked out as I described before. Hopefully, they will be coming into harvest late autumn through to next February. Planted too early it will all be ready in the autumn and over by winter when it’s really needed.

under cover it will stop growing for a time when planted out and often go a yellowish colour. This is because the plant moved to different soil/surroundings cannot compensate and get the goodness out of the ground fast enough to sustain it, so it stands still or even goes backwards. Mind the winds immediately after planting out as they can blow the seed leaves off the plant, which will set it back.

and need putting out in the garden when you see a shoot between the two seed leaves. Try not to plant these sensitive vegetables in the protected area too early. If the plant gets too forward