It was rather cold and blowy down the allotment today. I guess Autumn has finally turned up to say "Game over peeps". Certainly the courgettes are now just a pile of dusty and dead leaves.
But as for the beans, well they never really amounted to much this year. I guess the cold weather when they were just sprouting kind of stunted their growth, but we got a few. The rest we've left to turn into bean seeds, hopefully for a better crop next year.
Either that or I'll just throw them in a stew and be done with them. It's not like they're magic beans.
On the subject of Beans... I guess we should consider the year effectively over. I probably won't grow anything over winter but I am tempted by Steve's suggestion of Field Beans. Of course I have to be careful which bed I put them in because the lower beds of ours have a tendency to get flooded in the winter months. But we do still go to the plot at least once a week (mostly to off-load our compostable waste) so having a ready source of greenery to eat might be a good idea.
(Incidentally... 400th Blog Post!!)
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