Buttery yellow beans add flavour and colour to the plot. Photo: Howard Sooley
Spent Friday morning busily preparing for the Gospel Oak Gardening Club's visit to the allotment. Regular readers will know that the kids have been growing Cherokee Trail of Tears purple pod beans in the school greenhouse for planting out on the plot. For poles we had picked up hazel bundles from a coppice near Fern Verrow as we wanted to avoid using bamboo if we could. The straightest ones we wanted to build as 'wigwams' for the Cherokee beans (just the word 'wigwam' takes me back to childhood), and the other branches we leaned and tied together in runs as 'tents'.
Planting our Cherokee beans in the wigwams
The plan was to plant the purple pod beans with yellow Beurre Aguille, French Blue Lake and American Damatsu to give a variety of colours, but have since discovered the Beurre Aguille are bush (they were given to us by the Seed Ambassadors and the handwritten packet had been blanched in the rain), so will now replant with the peas.
Anyone else found their planting plans going wrong?
Would be comforting to know we are not the only ones...
or are we?
Good-bye and good growing from the Gospel Oak Gardening Club
