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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Poles, beans and tomatoes from a gardening Yoda | Allan Jenkins

Giving thanks to the gardening gods – and a farm in the Black Mountains

Our summer started with a white van man, a delivery from near the Black Mountains of Herefordshire. Hazel poles for climbing beans and peas, a tray of sweet peas, too. All from Jane Scotter at Fern Verrow farm, with a few tomato plants thrown in.

The poles are chunky hazel, full of character – I am not overly keen on bamboo, too straight and featureless – with surfaces for the beans to cling to like climbers on a cliff face.

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