popular What have you done today in the Garden?

Nothing today it's raining again and it's not supposed to.

 

Ta @Droopy

Harvested all the Bridgwater beans today...



Enough there for Tetters and mine's Christmas dinner



It's not too well known but Simon and Garfunkel wrote Bridge over troubled water after spending their early days as musicians living off of Bridgwater beans

 

Got the tractor out of the shed and found these.....



Harlequin ladybirds, they come from foreign parts

 

I had this funny imagining. Sort of like this vid but all hail Zigs!

 

What a group of sleepy-heads !
But what I thought even more interesting than the ladybirds were the lacewings. And that they were vacationing together.
Those Bridgewaters look good. Do you only harvest those when they are dried?

 

Cut back the roses a bit for the winter and took down the hanging baskets and put them in the greenhouse. They'll be alright left as they are until next spring then I'll pot them up individually.

 

We get both Lacewings and the Ladybirds in the house too

We eat the bean pods as well, just didn't get around to picking them all this year Most folk say they're the best tasting bean

 

AHHHH!
we call them hand trucks or appliance/furniture dolly's... glad to hear it. still be careful.

 

Thanks for de bean info, mr Z.

 

Zigs, those beans are lovely. never heard of them or the story. I have also never seen lacewings congregate to winter over. that is interesting.

 

We harvest the ones for the table well before they are dried. The dried ones are left for next year's seed

 

Those Harlequin ladybirds are horrible disgusting stinky creatures. (I don't like them much, can you tell)??
They decimate our native ladybirds, and congregate in the house up in the rafters, where they stink the place out if allowed. We used to suck them up in the vacuum cleaner nozzle, but this year Zigs has an extending pole and zaps them with one of those sticky fly traps we use in the greenhouse and tunnel. They have yellow blood - yuk

 

Interesting stuff, T.

 

Here's a few of the Bridgwater beans from August this year

 

Water has been getting in to the new cactus house, I suspect it's been pooling where rain comes off the roof and soaking through the new wall...



Any other bed it probably wouldn't matter but it won't be any good to have cacti sitting with wet roots so I dug a French drain outside the door...



I backfilled it with broken concrete from under Tetters slabs in the back garden...



And then finished it with some gravel and slabbage