Tidy Up And Cover Up
Aug 21st, 2007 by Chris
Another busy day. We cleared the nursery bed , emptied the first composter onto it and covered it with plastic ready for next year. I pulled up the last of the Barlotti Beans from there but we still have a couple of rows elsewhere.
The broad beans Rob had sown on plot 18 have done really well and I harvested a small bucketful along with the thinnings from the carrots which were looking long and straight so fingers crossed for them.
The Jerusalem Artichokes are now much taller than the shed and when we arrived today one of them had fallen down accross the flower bed. I tied it to the 8ft cane and look forward to seeing them flowering soon.
The Jerusalem artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus also called the sunroot or sunchoke or topinambur, is a flowering plant native to North America grown throughout the temperate world for its tuber which is used as a root vegetable.
“Which way soever they be dressed and eaten, they stir and cause a loathsome wind within the body, thereby causing the belly to be pained and tormented.” ooooer
We weeded the beds still in use and though there is still more to do it all looked very tidy when we came home.
