Jim's Allotment - Plot 9 - May Tour Part 8 - Kale, Earwigs, Cucumbers and upside-down beans.

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Growing Organic Vegetables - Tips and hints on how to plant and grow Brassicas, Why runner beans grow anticlockwise, Upside down beans, the best way to train cucumbers and earthing up potatoes.

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Get update Jim as ever, On the subject of the worms all tackle shops will order your worms for you and generally you will get them with in two working days........I've done two lots of corn with total different results so far this year, The first lot I had 99% success On the second batch that i did The result were about 25% and that's using the same batch of corn, I'm putting it down to the weather with it being up and down all the tiOn a side note earwigs love sweetcorn as i found out last year

I had upside down pea beans, so not just runner beans.!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_bean

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Hi Jim, yes, it has been a strange start to the year. I sowed some broad beans in the ground 3 weeks ago, none of them have come through yet. Also I've not had much luck with lettuces this year. Not had any problems with sweet corn or peas. Strange times.
Stay well.
Ken

Hi great video.

How long has it taken to get your soil that good and what advice can you give me to get a part of my allotment that hasn't been used ever as a garden in good shape fast. We have free manual +wood chips. Cheers Scott

Thanks for sharing your latest video Jim

Happy growing
Terry

Hi Jim another great video A question please Last year I grew some runner beans ‘White Lady’ stringless which the beans had been saved from the year before When cooking them straight from the plant they was very tender but on using them from frozen they seemed a little stringy (that little shape bit ) so do they revert back to what was original etc or is it best to plant new beens each year Thanks sorry for length of question

Another great episode Jim. Thank you for the reply to my question.
Happy growing.

Thanks for showing me how to train cucumbers and melons. I feel more confident now. Great stuff! A little tip about your freezing beans, I also do the same when I've got a lot. When you bring your water to boil, in a gallon add a good handful salt! Any cheap cooking salt will do. When you rinse into cold, it washes it off. You will find your beans as greener and taste better. They keep better also. I do this with green cabbage also and white crunchy cabbage and any green leaves as this takes the sulphur out which gives you heartburn and stops it having that school dinner smell we all remember. My mum was a cook on a farm in the 1920s and was shown how to do this so she did it and now so do I. No need o add any when you re cook.

Earwigs are omnivores and can be of benefit in the garden by eating aphids and other small pests and can help reduce infestations. If its your dahlia being eaten I've read some advise about putting Vaseline on the stems. All so, Home-made wasp traps, the kind of trap where one cuts off the top of a plastic pop bottle, and inverts it back into the bottle baited with sugar water works really well too.