Saturday, February 18, 2012

18 February 2012


The broad beans on our allotment have survived the recent snow and cold weather, but they are showing signs of being nibbled. We planted them a few months ago to give them chance to beat the cold and give us a slightly earlier crop. The old wives story says that if you plant them in late autumn they don't suffer later on with blackfly. Up until a couple of years ago we always found that to be true, but in the last two years we have had bad attacks of blackfly.

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