Harvesting the beans
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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The strawberries have been our big success story this summer. Surprising, really, as they have been a dead loss in years gone by.
May saw a slight fall in the number of eggs laid by our three hens. That was unexpected, but there are some possible explanations.
A flapjack in essence, this is very quick and easy to bake and uses store cupboard ingredients, so you can keep stocked up on everything you need and make a new batch whenever you want some.
The apricot tree is looking distinctly sorry for itself and now, with a gust of wind, it’s lost two of its only four fruits.
We had a very good demonstration of why it’s worth growing your own this week, even when vegetables are so cheap in the shops at the moment. Here it is.
