Tuesday 15 August 2017

Bean tastic

We have had a bumper crop of green beans this year. And just when we thought the "Purple Queen" plants were finishing up, I noticed that many of the plants have a new flush of flowers:
We pick the beans every 2 days and typically our harvests have been looking like this for the past couple of weeks:
This is probably about 60-70% of the total harvest. The rest didn't even make it past quality control and ended up on the compost heap. We can afford to be ruthless given the sheer quantity! The "Blue Lake" plants, and their flowers, are now at the top of their 7 foot canes, so still plenty more beans to come:
In other news, the pumpkins "Jack O Lantern" are beginning to ripen:
We have about 4 decent sized fruit. We are getting a small punnet of "Polka" raspberries every few days:
And large quantities of tomatoes from our greenhouse at home, again harvested every day or two:

Definitely peak month for harvesting thus far!

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