Wednesday 30 July 2014

Beans Beans, are good for your heart, the more you eat the more you F**T

Well we certainly seem to be doing okay for beans this year. 4kg of beans harvested today. The freezer is now getting a little full with beany goodness.

Pulled a couple of radishes to go into a allotment salad for lunch, as I hate to compost stuff that I have had to thin out, in this case is was a row of Little Gem lettuce.



Got some more raspberries, I'm slowly collecting them as they fruit, not sure what is going on with them as they are Autumn fruiting and I have already had a good size harvest (enough to make a raspberry wine)



More courgettes, well only three, but we have quite a few already in the fridge. A Patti Pan, Four more Cucumbers and Ten more Crystal Lemon Cucumbers as well. I love these apple size cucumbers, they are far better than a standard Cucumber, word of warning though, they are spiky little buggers.



The Invincible Pumpkins are doing great, can't wait for these to be ready as they will be used in a Beer.

This grey skinned variety looks rather unusual but is one of the best for culinary use.  The bright orange flesh is full of flavour and is excellent roasted. 

Yummy. I have three growing nicely on two plants so far. Gave them a good old drink today as it's been dry for weeks.



Left one of the Courgettes to grow on into a Marrow so the Other Half can make her Marrow Jam. The Coke can is there just for scale.

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It's a butternut Squash!!!! Tut Tut you naughty gardeners.

Two plants and a fruit on each, I've never grown them before so I'm happy to see we may get at least two butternut squashes.



My hop plants are getting so heavy they are bending the flagpoles, and they have only just started flowering so there will be even more weight on the poles in the coming months.

I'll be moving the hop plants into a new location for next season so the four plants grow up a central pole (or poles) in a wigwam fashion in the hope they will counteract each other as they grow up the pole.

4 comments:

  1. fettlersonland31 July 2014 at 10:03

    What a jungle of hops and that's only year 2?

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  2. Hopefully they will be okay when they get moved and be even better, that lot is only 6 binds per hop, (6 shoots)

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  3. Wow those little cucumber look so cute I've never seen those before. Do they taste like traditional style cucumber?

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  4. Oh, much better, and very prolific. Will be doing these again. They are crystal lemon cucumbers, small but very tasty.

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