Its been 84 days since we planted the 3 bags of early Swift potatoes in the
greenhouse. I paid £1 for 8 seed potatoes so nothing to lose really as I used last years compost. This morning I watched
Dan from the allotment diary.co.uk harvest his early potatoes which were in the polytunnel for about 70 days I think. So when I went to the allotment to lock the greenhouse up this afternoon I decided to empty one of the bags (one with my name on it). I'd put 3 seed potatoes in the bag but only two had grown the other had rotted off in the bottom of the bag.
Here's a photo of the potatoes.
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| Pound and a half of new organic potatoes |
I've added a few photos from the new greenhouse on the full plot.
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| Not in the greenhouse but here's the garlic and onions |
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| French climbing beans |
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| View from the door |
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| Right hand side are radish, left of middle are lettuce. |
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| Some Chinese cabbage to the right more caulis and some marigolds. |
Thanks for visiting my journal :)
Just reading your journal and noticed your problems with french bean germination. I had a search on the vine and couldn't find anywhere suitable to leave a response. Have you tried the following:
ReplyDeletePut a thoroughly moist pad of kitchen roll in the bottom of a jam jar.
Add 6-10 bean seeds (depending on the size of the jar).
Screw the lid firmly closed and leave in a warm place.
It takes 2-4 days for roots to show, pot on when the root is ~1cm long (just be very careful not to damage the root or you're stuffed). 4-10 days later you have bean plants...I've managed an average of 95% germination over 5 years with this method.
Andromeda (from the vine)
Hi Andromeda thanks for your comment :o) I haven't tried germinating beans in a glass jar so I'll give that a go with the next lot of beans I a week or so.
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