11 August 2009 AN EXPLANATION FOR FAILING RUNNER BEANS? My mother phoned the other day to ask me why her runner beans were not setting. She started them in toilet rolls in spring and planted out her strapping youngsters (“the best ever at that stage”) into enriched soil in a sunny place after all reasonable [...]
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11 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman AN EXPLANATION FOR FAILING RUNNER BEANS?
Tuesday, August 11th, 20098 August 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman ON BRUSSELS SPROUTS BUTTERFLIES & WASPS, SATURDAY AFTERNOON 2.13
Saturday, August 8th, 20098 August 2009 ON BRUSSELS SPROUTS BUTTERFLIES & WASPS I frequently write about why wasps should be tolerated. The good they do in a veg patch controlling caterpillars is often overlooked or not fully appreciated. I’ve also written about how, around now, breeding nests disperse and once flesh-hungry jaspers become excited by sugary things like [...]
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Saturday, July 11th, 200930 June 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman HOTTER THAN JULY
Tuesday, June 30th, 200930 June 2009 HOTTER THAN JULY There is so much to and so little time to do it – that’s how I feel now as July beckons. This will be a hectic month both in the veg patch and elsewhere. Second Early spud’s will be in full swing, successively sown broad beans still producing fat [...]
Read More »27June 2009 DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman WASPS IN THE BIRD BOX, WASPS IN ST JAMES
Saturday, June 27th, 200927 June 2009 WASPS IN THE BIRD BOX One of the bird boxes in my mum and dad’s garden, in the Vale of White Horse five miles south of Oxford, is home to a nest of wasps. I noticed it this afternoon on a visit while looking round the borders and beds. It’s on the [...]
Read More »2 May 2009: DIRTY NAILS’ BLOG by Joe Hashman MUCH MALIGNED SHARKS OF THE VEG PATCH, STALL AT THE FOOD FESTIVAL
Saturday, May 2nd, 20092 May 2009 MUCH MALIGNED SHARKS OF THE VEG PATCH I’ve seen my first wasp of the year this morning. Whilst sitting up the end amongst my fruit trees, in a pocket set aside for nature, the golden-yellow predator was moving with precise deliberation amongst a thick fringe of nettles which soften the junction of [...]
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