Dwarf French bean harvesting
This is my favourite jungle. A vast thicket of delicious dwarf French beans.
If ever I have a gap in the vegetable garden beds, I shove these amazing beans in. The broad beans are up and over and I have spaces where I want to grow lettuce, but the weather is much too warm to subject delicate little plants to that much exposure.
So in go the beans. I have spares, so if any of you want to have some, do let me know. I’ve already posted some to Sydney, and Helen in Budapest, so I’m open to any region. It’s a great grow anywhere veg.
I have also found it the pefect excuse to keep on shelling the beans which I dried over the winter.
In front of the teev watching the Tour de France (sadly now over). Or better still, in my tidy and orderly potting shed.
My plan was to have sit on my chaise longue with the basket of dried beans on one side and cat on my lap. Multi tasking.
But Artur was having none of it. Here he is on the appropriately named Naughty Step. There was a minor altercation between his claws and my wrist when I tried to reach for a bean while patting him with the other hand.
Someone is going to have to Learn to Share.
26th July 2016 @ 7:28 am
My old cat, Clary, used to do that. Woe betide anybody that tried to do anything else whilst she was on their lap. She had an excuse when she got older, but actually she was pretty grumpy and free with her claws from a kitten. I used to go to work covered in scratches…
I’d love some beans if you still have spares. I’ve never grown dwarf beans before, not sure why. I’m in the UK, so nowhere exotic. I’ll have to think of something to swap with you. (My default bartering item is eggs, but may have to think of something else to post!)
26th July 2016 @ 8:47 am
Great Hazel, send me an email with your address and I’ll send some on. lindy@fruitfulresearch.com