What a pleasure to come back to the garden to slip seeds into the soil that we will then see grow and especially the fruits (and vegetables!) Of which we will be able to taste after several weeks.
Jacky Mercier market gardener in Frontenay sur Dive likes to share the knowledge he has accumulated over the years. This notion of sharing is at the heart of his conception of market gardening. So if he invites us to sow our beans in January, he advises to wait a bit until our garden is no longer a swimming pool if we have had heavy rains recently.
Then it is by pockets of 3 seeds that it will be necessary to proceed, will it be necessary to clarify then?
No, the bean plants can go up to 1 meter and when they are several together they support each other, “tutor” each other.
Watering needed by May, which should be the harvest? A priori no, unless we were to be exposed to drought. Which, fingers crossed, shouldn’t happen until May. Jacky Mercier is careful:
you never know in advance.