Our other growing place: Home

Our home plot

The allotment isn't the only place where we grow. Last summer we decided to dig up a small plot in our front garden, with the approval of our landlord. We filled it up with green manure over the winter and it was ready to plant in spring. These broad beans "Giant Exhibition Long pods" has been sown early spring and they are looking good and in bloom. as a reference the cold frame on the right is 43.5cm high, so the broad beans are about half a meter high.
Behind is our lovely big cat Lucas, who is helping us keeping the birds away (not that he can catch them but he scares the birds away at least...) Behind the broad beans are the climbing beans and runners beans, and on the left are the sugar-snap peas.

I mentioned in an earlier blog that we were keeping a courgette plant in a pot at home, I noticed today that some male flowers were fused and couldn't resist and take a photo, maybe some of you have already seen this... The plant is also much bigger than the two we planted in the allotment, that must be because it is less windy here and also the compost is probably more fertile than the soil in the allotment.

Courgette plant with fused male flowers

One more photo: reading a magazine, we saw a potato planter offer that we decided to try. We bought two of them (Will's parents ordered another one for us) and the potato plants looks like they really like it there. Let's hope they're producing as much inside as they do on top... 

Potato bags