Comments on: Notes on a season http://www.turquoise.me.uk/2007/09/23/notes-on-a-season/ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Blue Witch http://www.turquoise.me.uk/2007/09/23/notes-on-a-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1846 Blue Witch Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:24:24 +0000 http://www.turquoise.me.uk/2007/09/23/notes-on-a-season/#comment-1846 "<i>The “two sisters” idea of planting beans in with the sweetcorn - maybe I have unusually vigorous beans/weedy sweetcorn but the former is pulling the latter to horizontal.</i>" We tried 3 Sisters after seeing it described by Carol Klein on GW. Complete waste of time, and I suspect she's never tried it or she'd know that!! We've had the worst year we've ever had for cucumbers, beans, squashes and courgettes. Still picking tomatoes though! Suggest you get next years garlic in asap. Much better if planted now. Can be grown in pots if necessary - or started in pots then planted out later. “The “two sisters” idea of planting beans in with the sweetcorn – maybe I have unusually vigorous beans/weedy sweetcorn but the former is pulling the latter to horizontal.”

We tried 3 Sisters after seeing it described by Carol Klein on GW. Complete waste of time, and I suspect she’s never tried it or she’d know that!!

We’ve had the worst year we’ve ever had for cucumbers, beans, squashes and courgettes. Still picking tomatoes though!

Suggest you get next years garlic in asap. Much better if planted now. Can be grown in pots if necessary – or started in pots then planted out later.

]]> By: Kitchen Witch http://www.turquoise.me.uk/2007/09/23/notes-on-a-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1561 Kitchen Witch Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:24:05 +0000 http://www.turquoise.me.uk/2007/09/23/notes-on-a-season/#comment-1561 Sounds like a mixed bag, which is about what I had this year. I was lucky with tomatoes and with chillis, ditto J. artichokes (have you decided about the flower malarky? Ours are just opening now, but as you say, stilts would be needed to intervene), chard (do chard next year - is really good and easier than spinach), beetroot and radishes (which I sort of thought I wasn't that fussed about but now know for sure). Not so good - courgettes, pumpkins, beans, carrots, parsnips. So, not bad, but not great... Sounds like a mixed bag, which is about what I had this year. I was lucky with tomatoes and with chillis, ditto J. artichokes (have you decided about the flower malarky? Ours are just opening now, but as you say, stilts would be needed to intervene), chard (do chard next year – is really good and easier than spinach), beetroot and radishes (which I sort of thought I wasn’t that fussed about but now know for sure). Not so good – courgettes, pumpkins, beans, carrots, parsnips. So, not bad, but not great…

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