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Now brace yourself budgielover ...this is what the angelic little darlings do after weeks of rain ...no sun and huge storms!
The grounds here are heavy red clay but I have always used the no dig garden principle here and in raised beds.(I think you call it lasagne gardening, however these vines are legumes and so they don't really need fertilizer as much as compost and warmth ...if you look here they are over the top of almost everything and most of this growth is almost everywhere as the seeds flung out last Autumn have come up everywhere, but due to awful weather I haven't gotten to them in time.This presents me with a difficult problem, I love these things but if I allow this excited growth I won't have anything left in the garden! Even if you cut it out ...it will have made tuber things that will spring back.This is just the beginning of our Summer so we will have hundreds if not thousands of pods
(which look like a green bean ...only hard and deep shiny green) it is too soon yet for these ...they seem to come in late Summer into autumn.By the way don't use high nitrogen fertilizer ...that just gives you lots of vegetation and not many flowers.

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