Beans always look so happy when they first start growing. The root shoots out of the bottom of the seed and the leaves and stem from the top. As the plant pushes its way out of the ground it pushes up the seed, which bursts open with a kind of ‘ta-dah!’, its hands poised to clap.
Don’t believe me? Check out this picture I took in the greenhouse this morning:
It’s yawning and stretching.
From this point on they’ll get taller and stronger and can soon go out into the plot where they’ll quickly become our fastest-growing crops, climbing their way up the cane teepees we’ll put out for them before white, pink and orange flowers bloom on their thin branches.
Who says you can’t have both flowers and produce in your garden? With beans you get them on the same plant.
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Ooh, I’m jealous. My runners are taking an age to germinate. Speaking of flowers, I can highly recommend ‘yellow sweet’ mange-tout peas – they have amazing pink and purple flowers for much of the summer.