There’s something quite magical about being up and about before the rest of the world, harvesting your vegetables in the warmth of the early sun. Even better when you can bag yourself two bumper buckets of beans in the process.

We’ve had a few meals off the plants so far, but we have plans for next week that are going to involve a lot of cooking for a lot of people, so I’d been resisting the urge to harvest too many over the last week or so. As such, the vines were heavy with produce by this morning, and I managed to pick a kilo and a quarter of runner beans:

And another whole kilo and a quarter of French beans:

That takes up our totals of each for the year to date to 1.93kg of runner beans, and 1.54kg of French. That means that on both counts we’ve already exceeded what we got in the whole season last summer, where the runner beans mustered 1.4kg, and the French a paltry 875g.

For about 30p-worth of seeds, then, we’ve had a harvest worth £21.59 from these two crops alone, seemingly with more to come.

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1. Has-beans
2. End of the beans
3. Bumper beans and potatoes