{"id":108166,"date":"2019-06-16T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/poles-beans-and-tomatoes-from-a-gardening-yoda-allan-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2019-06-16T13:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T06:02:59","slug":"poles-beans-and-tomatoes-from-a-gardening-yoda-allan-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/poles-beans-and-tomatoes-from-a-gardening-yoda-allan-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Poles, beans and tomatoes from a gardening Yoda | Allan Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGiving thanks to the gardening gods \u2013 and a farm in the Black MountainsOur 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 \u2013 I am not overly keen on bamboo, too straight and featureless \u2013 with surfaces for the beans to cling to like climbers on a cliff face. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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