Garden Bears' World - Endon plants Broad Beans

Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Garden Bears' World with me, Endon Bear.  Before we go into the garden, I thought you might like to see some of the daffodils Polar grows specially for cut flowers.

Now that Spring is here, there are plenty of flowers in the garden, including these little bells on the dwarf, variegated comfrey and these pretty primroses.

But Spring is also a busy time in the vegetable garden.  You might remember us bears sowing some broad bean seeds in February.  Here they are now, healthy little plants and, after a couple of weeks in the coldframe, all ready for the garden.

 Polar raked over the bed where they are to go last week, covering it with wire mesh to keep the naughty cats off.  She lifted the wire, then used the paving slabs on each side to mark out a nice straight line for our beans.

We decided to give them lots of light and space, so are planting four in each row, and six rows in the bed.  I started digging the planting holes, but it was hard work for a small bear!

Polar suggested that she dig the holes with her big trowel, then I could drop a bean plant in - in its cardboard tube - and fill in some soil around it.  Soon, we had completed our first row.

Polar gave each little plant a good drink of water, before I pulled extra soil up around them, to cover the cardboard tubes completely.

 Once we had planted and watered in six rows of bean plants, Polar put some nets over the top, to make sure the pigeons didn't peck the leaves.

'I think we've earned a cup of tea and some toast and marmalade!' said Polar, and I agreed.  There's nothing like toast and marmalade for Elevenses, when you've been a busy small bear!