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Had a very exciting morning! As new lottie plotters who have worked very hard since January to achieve a lovely tidy third of a plot, 7 beds with beautiful paths, we got to enjoy the results of our labours! Our first broad bean has popped its head out of the soil- should I run back with a blanket?

Broad beans are tough i think he will be ok  ;D

well done with plot

If it was direct sown, not transplanted, it will be tough enough to cope with anything the weather can throw at it...
except perhaps a 6" layer of volcanic ash....  :-X

wouldn't mind some volcanic ash- I'll bet it would really help my clay soil!

Well done.  It is so lovely to see the first shoots.

Broad beans might be tough, but have you felt the Hartlepool winds.   ;D ;D ;D

We lost all of our aquadulce over the winter. First time it has ever happened.

There usually q tough plants 

but we have had a cold winter :o

Quote from: cornykev on April 20, 2010, 18:16:22
Broad beans might be tough, but have you felt the Hartlepool winds.   ;D ;D ;D

Very nippy at the plot today, but the sun was shining and when you're busy bodging about you don't feel the cold!  We Hartlepudlians are a tough lot, like our beans!..... must do something about my potato in the bag in the back garden!

Quote from: shirlton on April 20, 2010, 18:19:14
We lost all of our aquadulce over the winter. First time it has ever happened.

Snap, we lost all ours under the snow. They were looking so good at one stage

The mice had mine, but everyone else I've spoken to had theirs in the open ground, and lost them, while mine got through the worst of the cold and were eaten a bit later. I doubt whether it would have happened if I'd been fitter, but I'd had a bad fall, and wasn't coping with things like putting poison down.

Well Done keep it up the good work going.

Lost mine to the cold, lost the second lot to mice (even though they went out as small plants the mice had them up for what was left of the bean).... I've got a laod more in now at home and sowed up some Crimson flowered into half a block of rootrainers yesterday evening.... the other half-block has got Giganda giant butterbeans in....

chrisc