Beans, Beans and more Beans

A glorious day to be planting my beans.  Simon had very nicely positioned all the canes and stringed them beautifully so all that was required today was a lot of bending and poking beans into holes.

So what went in?  Runner beans, 3 different sorts, 15 x Polestar (stringless and courtesty of vegseeds.net), 15 x Enorma and 15 x Equator (last years seeds so hopefully they will germinate.  Climbing French beans - 2 sorts, 90 Cobra (the bigger and better version of the Bluelakes we did last year), and 30 x Hunter (again, courtesy of vegseeds.net).  That filled the canes.

In the wide gap inbetween the canes I planted a long section of French dwarf green beans - Purple King.  Not had much luck with dwarf ones when I did them on plot 69 so hoping to have a bit more sucess this time.



Everything is starting to grow now, lots of sunflowers poking up through the soil, flower beds are looking a bit more busy, broad beans, onions seeds and courgettes all doing what they should be.  Very pleased with the peas, more goodies courtesy of vegseeds!



Polytunnel is going to be very cramped when all grows, Simon is in charge of that this year and he has filled it with cucumbers, tomatoes, aubergines, peppers and not a lot of space will be left, think he will need a machete to get through it all!



His hops are growing like billy-oh, almost growing visibly whilst we were down there today!  Don't think it will be long before they reach the top and create a lovely hoppy tunnel.



And so to an overview of how it all looks at the moment, very happy with progress this year, filled the last two raised beds today with Florence Fennel (Sirio) and Chard (Bright Lights).  No more room left now.  Except for the raised tubs which will have carrots in if we get around to mending them, need a bit of hammer and nail attention first.





And in the greenhouse.  'tis chilli season again.  Very much Simons department!