Scarlet Cambridge Broad Beans

What have I been up to. Work, work and more work which is why I haven't posted much lately. Why? I've been trying to save madly for the two months I need off work after I have my operation but today just to cheer my self up a little bit I planted some Scarlet Cambridge Broad Beans that were sent to me by Scarecrow from Scarecrow's Garden after I'd expressed an interest in them from a post Scarecrow had about them.

So I cleared a spot of veggie garden, attacked it with a digging fork and happily planted my seeds. All I have left to do is stay on top of any new emergent weed growth and watch them grow.

What Scarecrow says, Old English Bean has scarlet-purple bean seeds and green pods on 1 metre stems. Young pods can be cooked fresh or dried.
Beans are tender and a little smaller than other varieties.

Sounds neat to me.
Cheers

Stewart.

Gardenfest

This weekend folks, don't miss out. For the full run down go to the Gardenfest web site. Click here

It don't mean a thing.

I got a kick out of this guy the other day so I'm sharing. Hope you get a kick out of him too.

He's sing about Permaculture principles. In this case Permaculture principle #3. You can follow him back through Youtube where he has other songs and videos written about Permaculture principles.



Cheers

Stewart.

Roses are red..

I was flicking through twitter this morning when I came across a tweet about the difference between own root roses and grafted roses.

I found it informative and I enjoyed the authors authority and enthusiasm so I decided to repost it here. Hope you enjoy it too.

You can follow this link to the original blog where I got the video from.

Matilda

Hello, sorry for the lack of postings lately but my UC's been keeping me pretty crook lately. So I bought myself something to keep myself entertained while I try to make up my mind to either have an operation or stick things out the way they are atm. Mind you an operation's sounding pretty good . I just so damned sick of feeling sick.

Anyways, enough about me because I like to introduce to you Matilda the amazing Soprano Ukulele.

Isn't she gorgeous?And she's all mine. Hours and hours of fun and I can take her with me in the Cab as well.

Any how, I'm off to practice a few more chords. Cheers

Stewart

Gardening Australia

Who watched Gardening Australia last night (repeated at 1:00pm today)? What did you think? Good, bad, indifferent, informative?

Gardening Australia Episode 1