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Given the probability that you will harvest and enjoy the bean pod rather than the embryonic bean seed, what advantage do you seek ?

Beth chatto's garden is mainly herbaceous and planted with drought resistant stuff showing what can be grown in hot dry summers. Mostly it will be asleep this time of year. I would call it more of a nursery than a garden.

@GreenFingeredPete I agree re tomato seeds. I keep packets sealed in the fridge, and have had good germination of Purple Cherokee for 3 years. There were about 100 seeds in the packet - shame to waste them. I grew about 10, and gave spare youngsters to friends.

I also use the coloured labels as no need to write on them if you make a note of which colour applies to which plant. NB don't lose your notebook

Hope Rupert Lowe wins. and does everything he says.Alberta, Canada in October is voting to leave Canada, interesting. Baby steps.

Nine thousand! Ri-ight. Well, we'll see what it does this year...

In Farmyard Nursery today

Within 60 miles of Dorset, do not net to prevent sunshine but it goes help to protect from wind drying, preventing some wilting caused by this and in other weather, creates a nicroclimate worth 2-3 degrees . Essential here for pigeon protection especially and butterflies I use scaffold debris...

Te one from Spain arrived today so I have it resting before planting, Sanremo ...

Hard wood cuttings have stored energy so they can often continue to throw out leaves before they root. I would personally remove the fruits because they are just robbing the energy and won't come to anything. In water you get those little white dots as a precursor to rooting. It's a good sign...

If you did decide to remove your grass areas @machtucker, Hakonechloa makes good ground cover. I have it planted under an Acer in my lower garden shown below in summer, autumn and winter.