King's Lynn Horticultural Society klhs.co.uk
May/June 2022 Volume 9, Issue 2
KLHS News
Wallflowers (Erysimum) fashion a vivid spectacle in our flower bed every spring.
Beware slug pellets with hedgehogs! pandemic were lifted.
ANNUAL MEETING The Society held their annual meeting at the Red Cat pub in North Wootton on March 23rd, when all the officers and committee were reelected. It was decided to reinstate the membership subscriptions from April at the increased price of £10 a year for adults.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
The summer show thus returned in August and was well supported with high quality exhibits.
Annual meeting
And December saw members once again enjoying their Christmas lunch at the Stuart House Hotel, in King’s Lynn.
Hyde Hall
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Gardening Tips
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Officers are: President, Paul Brandon; Vice Presidents, Elizabeth Nockolds and Veronica Lane; Chairman, David The meeting recapped on Wilson; Vice Chairman, an improved end to 2021, John Player; Secretary, when restrictions imKevin Ayres; posed for the Covid-19 (Continued on page 2)
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Growing Runner Beans 3 Queen’s Pudding
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Jubilee Stall
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VISIT TO HYDE HALL
Show Secretary, Rachel Vyse; Treasurer, Steve Barker; Publicity Officer, Kelvin Fairweather. Other committee members: John Germeney, Nolan Mills.
A coach trip to the RHS garden at Hyde Hall, near Chelmsford, in Essex, has been arranged for Sunday, June 26th.
Website Manager, Stephen Fairweather; Newsletter Editor, Elizabeth Fairweather.
The outing will cost members £15 and non-members £20. To book a place, contact Kevin Ayres on 01553 674623. The coach will leave Austin Fields coach park, King’s Lynn, PE30 9DS, at 8am.
You can pay your membership fees directly to the society’s bank: sort code 20-46-65, account number 20546259, or send a cheque payable to the KLHS to Kevin Ayres, 56 Tyndale, North Wootton, PE30 3XD.
Payment for the trip can be paid via the society’s bank account: sort code 20-46-65, account number 20546259.
KELVIN’S GARDENING TIPS
5. Any early potatoes with tops showing should be moulded up to protect against frost.
By Kelvin Fairweather
6. Hardy annuals can be sown and dahlias planted, protected against frost and the usual slugs and snails.
Or you can send a cheque (payable to the KLHS) to Kevin at 56 Tyndale, North Wootton, PE30 3XD.
1. With it having been such a dry April, chances of lots of rain to come could mean the slugs and snails will appear in their masses. Now is the time to encourage hedgehogs, frogs, toads etc. Remember that slug and snail killer based on metaldehyde is now banned due to the effect on other wildlife.
7. Tulips and daffodils which have finished flowering can have the foliage removed and if desired lifted for storage. 8. When mowing the grass areas can be left to grow longer to see what wild flowers appear to help pollinators etc.
2. Time to sow dwarf and climbing French beans and runner beans, keeping a watch for frosts.
9. Beware if trimming any hedges or bushes not to disturb any nesting birds, which is against the law.
3. Onions, shallots and leeks can be planted.
10. Don't collect frogspawn or tadpoles from countryside ponds for your own garden pond to prevent any diseases being transferred.
4. Successional showings of salad crops can be made plus carrots and peas.
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GROWING RUNNER BEANS
ing and young plants are very suscep-
By Nolan Mills
climb around the canes and may need
One of my favourite vegetables is runner beans sliced and cooked as soon as possible after picking. They do not need much space, a 3 ft square of open ground is all that is required. The soil needs to be dug over and plenty of compost incorporated – I remember my father digging a bean trench and all the kitchen waste and other things such as socks and newspapers went into it! You need eight 8ft bamboo canes - these should be firmly put into the ground in a circle and tied together about 6ft up to form a tepee. At the base of each cane plant 2 seeds about 2 inches deep. There is no need to do this before May, emerg-
tible to frost. As the beans grow they may need some encouragement to tying. Make sure the plants have plenty of water particularly when the pods are forming and growing. A good variety is Enorma; as its name suggests it is a big long bean so can be picked immature – there is nothing worse than mature hard stringy beans. You will get too many but they will freeze nicely. This variety does produce a lot of foliage and some beans may get lost in it – don’t worry about leaving some beans, let them mature, dry them out and you have seed for the following year. This year on Grimston Road allotments the Vegetable Cup competition is for the longest runner bean.
Entries of 6 runner beans in the 2014 annual show.
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Eventual winner, Jemma Melvin, created a trifle with a base of lemon curd filled Swiss roll, St. Clement’s jelly. Now is your chance to make a prize- lemon custard, a mandarin coulis— winning version of the Platinum Jubi- made with tinned mandarins— lee pudding recently selected in a na- amaretti biscuits and whipped fresh cream. It’s topped with more amaretti tionwide competition. biscuits and a jewelled chocolate The lemon Swiss roll and amaretti bark. trifle was chosen from a short-list of five by a panel of judges led by Dame Jemma has said her simple trifle could be made with ingredients Mary Berry during a BBC TV probought from a shop if you didn’t want gramme on May 12th. to make it from scratch and that she The society is to include a special hoped it would be a people’s pudding class at the annual show in August so as well as for the Queen. local cooks can have a go at producing the delicious dessert to mark the Full details of the recipe’s ingredients and preparation can be found on the Queen’s 70 years on the throne. BBC Food and Fortnum and Mason In January, a competition was websites. For those of you who do not launched by royal suppliers, Fortnum have internet access at home, your and Mason, along with the Big Jubi- local library will be able to help. lee Lunch Charity, for amateur bakers to devise a new dish for the platinum The programme showing the final of the competition is available on BBC jubilee. iPlayer. There were more than 5,000 entries from people of all ages and backCELEBRATION STALL grounds. The society is having a stall illusThe dessert follows in the tradition of trating its history and expertise at coronation chicken, which was inthe jubilee celebrations in Wootvented for Queen Elizabeth’s coronaton Park on Friday, June 3rd. tion in 1953, and the Victoria sponge
QUEEN’S JUBILEE PUDDING
cake, which was a favourite of Queen Victoria. The first layered trifle was created in the 18th century.
Contact Kevin Ayres— telephone 01553 674623 or email klhs.secretary@btinternet.com– if you’d like to help run the stall during the 10am to 5pm event.
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