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I had some plants growing on the allotment, didn't know what they were but they didn't look like weeds so left them. One got knocked over and I hadn't bothered to clear it away. Then I saw a picture of a JA in The Times on Saturday which looked like my fallen plant so I pulled it up and sure enough it was a JA with a few tubers on it! Had them for lunch, the first time I've ever eaten them!
Another unexpected freebie, result!
Do some of the tubers break off of their own accord and stay in the soil for next year's growth?
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Ok cool. That area still needs to be dug over to get rid of bindweed roots so I'll see how many have volunteered to be left behind for next year!
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Originally posted by basketcase View PostScarey - really pretty!
Snadger - are the JAs part of your pocket planting scheme, or are they in a place of their own?
I have a 12 foot by 4 foot bed which has clubroot AND onion white rot in it. Decided to use it for growing, runner beans,climbing Barlotti and butter beans.
Dug a trench along it's centre and heaped the soil along the sides. Spent a couple of months adding plant debris,old leaves, grass cuttings etc before covering up the trench prior to sowing.
Put up metal support bars at each end and had the bright idea of planting JA's down the centre and allowing the climbing beans to grow up them as well as the 8 foot canes.
Where it all went pear shaped was that the JA's are a bit too rampant for the climbing beans and i was having to clip them back. What really put the kybosh on the experiment was the recent high winds we've had in these parts. JA's were blown down, taking the beans with them!
So all in all I wil have a good crop of JA's and a poor crop of climbing beans.
They could be used in a pocket growing scheme though, similar to a bean wigwam. You would have to make sure they weren't shading other plants.
I will probably try a few in pockets next year. I have french climbing bean wigwams incorporated at present and they work well adding a bit of height so no reason why JA's shouldn't.My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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I remember you posting that experiment Snadger, sorry to hear it didn't quite work out. Bit like my trying courgettes inside the bean wigwam they did poke their heads out and I got one or two decent ones, but then they gave up the ghost. Hope you find plenty of uses for the JAs.Granny on the Game in Sheffield
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