When all else fails, you can always grow runner beans. For the last few days we have had nothing but rain and grey skies and the garden is starting to look miserable. The tomatoes are not ripening, the sweet peppers look as if they are freeze-framed, the courgettes are begging for sunshine (as am I) and the lettuce look to be shouting 'slugs, here I am'.
But the runner beans are lapping up the rain. I grow them as a small hedge, and I grow them tall up my back fence. They are bursting with pretty pink and white flowers, and dripping with beans. My only problem, can I eat them fast enough. Sure I can, if I pick them young.
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| My first pickings this year |
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| Grow them tall |
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| Grow them small |
