Friday got July off to a pleasant start with a mostly sunny and dry day. The temperature just sneaked into the twenties.
With all our dry weather you might expect slugs and snails to be less problematical. After all we keep hearing blackbirds and thrushes are having a bad time as they can’t find worms or snails. The snails are still able to find my french beans waiting in my cold frame for planting out on the plot and devastating the new tender leaves. As they're now planted in the plot these particular snails will be looking elsewhere for a meal tonight.
On the plot I pulled this unusual collection of radishes. The long tapering root is a variety called Candela di Fuoco and the other three are from a packet of mixed seeds. I feel a taste test will be required to test out the different radishes. I hope the different varieties will extend the cropping time of each sowing for a few extra days.
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I see you have two beans per cell. Do you
ReplyDeletea. plant them out together
b. cut out the weaker of the two at ground level, or
c. tease them apart at the roots in the hope of getting two plants
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The answer is a) they both get planted out together. If I only wanted one bean per cell I think I would remove one as soon as they both germinated. I want to transplant them with minimal root disturbance so I don't fancy the idea of teasing them apart. Transplanting both plants always works fine and the beans usually go on to crop well. So I don't change a tried and trusted method.
ReplyDeleteNow I have to admit I tease them apart. I guess I'm just mean!
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