When are you sowing your Autumn ones? I seem to be ahead of myself this Autumn - perhaps trying to put this crap year behind me and get on with the next one. Most of my brassicas (loads this year) my onions and my garlic are in already (although going to buy some more garlic I think) I now want to get on with my autumn beans and peas. I filled my 72 pots with compost then checked the calendar in my HDRA book - and it says the end of October

Gonna do mine um... then Ady...

I'm sure they'll be fine.. tis only a matter of a couple of weeks

Got my onions, shallots and garlic in too, so fingers crossed, onions are already shooting away...

Oooh - ta - was beginning to think I'd been sowing my broadies in Coventry.

You sure you understood that or should I speak sloooowwwwwwwwwwwly...

Naaah, not my favourist of towns...

No broadies here. Only me eats em so not bothering. I'd normally sow mine in spring though

I have one set already in and they are just showinf through ... 10 days to be visible. I shall do another load but at the end of the month.

I'm sowing broadbeans if not next week end then the next one.... together with my onions

Never got round to doing a 2nd load in November. but those on the plot are a foot tall already ...

Have just discovered some saved sead, red beans I think, sitting in a puddle of water !! So I guess I have just started off another load! Think I will have to do them in pots in the cold frame!

GRew 'em, tried 'em....no one liked 'em....so none sowed this year!

ta for the broadies Flo. Sowed in em loo rolls and they're out in the cold greenhouse

Broad bean update. Flo those beans still haven't germinated Erk

Mine are about 4" tall, in loo rolls. They've been in the mini g-house for about a fortnight now. When do you reckon I should plant them on the lottie?

Same for peas & mange tout... should they go out at the same time?

They should be all right to go out about now as long as they have been hardened off. I have two sowings (about 32 each sowing) in up the plot already and have another sowing that I waiting to show in at the moment. I am planning on four all told - 2 lots of Aquadulces overwintering on the plot and two spring sown lots of Imperial Green Longpods.

Hey Flo. Broad bean update. They are growing out the bottom of the bog rolls but no leafage on top Tsk

Came home to find those soggy beans all shooting ... think they are the red ones

My first spring sown lot are showing their heads above the compost now. Will have to prepare their bed at the weekend and sow the next lot towards the end of March. That'll probably be the last lot for this year.

Thanks, I'll get mine in over the next week or two then. Was planning to do it this w/end but my dad's going into hosp for an op, so won't get to the lottie.

Progress!! Yay!!

The autumn sown Claudia Aquadulce have flowers on them and the spring ones are 8" tall ... and the redflowered are here at howe howling to be planted also nearlt 8"

... problem is nobody likes them 'cept me!!

I just picked three pods !! ... the baby beans were yummy !

I've got pods as long as my finger but they are nowhere near ready in this frozen northern wasteland.

it'll be reet

Mine are still at the flowering stage.

Mine are not there yet

Had some for my tea