Sunday, 7 September 2014

Jack and the beanstalk it ain't...

...but my runner bean plant is leaps and bounds ahead of anything I thought possible back when it got savaged by slugs and lost all its leaves. It now has flowers and has wrapped itself around a cane. If London's Indian summer continues I might even see a couple of beans.
My runner bean
It's definitely still tiny compared to what it could have been if I'd been able to plant it earlier in the season. This is one of the runner bean plants I saw when I visited the allotments for my vegetable growing course the following Saturday:
Someone else's runner bean at the allotments

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