End of the Season?

 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 hidden in amongst them are the odd one or two. Plus there are a few tomatoes hanging around slowly ripening, and in the greenhouse the chillies are still turning out the odd one or two spicy delight.

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!!)