Our beans are cracking on at quite a pace, and tonight we picked and ate the first fruits of our labours. It’s a shame we can’t say the same for our cherries.
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Who says the scraps you feed your chickens need to come from the kitchen? Now that our potted crops are coming to the end of their run, we’re getting them to help out in the garden.
After months of very slow progress on the plot we managed to bring in a bumper harvest with just an hour of picking, giving us plenty of beans and potatoes to share with friends.
Blanching broad beans lets you preserve your crop so that you can continue feeding yourself from the produce of your garden right through the winter.
Tonight we harvested the first of our broad beans. Ten pods in total, with three or four little beanlets inside each one. We cooked them up into a risotto with some peas and broccoli. Delicious.
A few days was all it took for our bean saplings to lose all their leaves. We haven’t yet worked out whether the wind or the birds are to blame.