Little garden interlude. The runner beans, having started to mature, are unstoppable. Luckily I have hungry neighbours.
There are as many courgettes as we care to eat and the first french beans are cropping too. I have at last transplanted the leeks and we had torrential rain yesterday, so I am not looking out of my window worrying about thirsty plants. Mind you, we are promised the tail end of Bertha, the hurricane travelling across the Atlantic, tomorrow. As the beans are mostly held together by elderly bamboos, some string and their own tendrils, they may be on the ground by Monday.
So, after a morning putting in proof-reading corrections, I will, I will, get into the garden for some re-enforcing work.
My last proof reader did not really enjoy Border Line. Although this is, naturally, depressing, it is also more helpful than vague praise. I have learnt some useful stuff from what she said (and did not say) and it is not too late to make some, hopefully crucial, changes. Knowing WHAT to change is a great boon. Thank you JL.
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I had NO IDEA that ordinary beans are so damned picturesque, Hilary ! – what a gorgeous display they make ! And to think of all that goodness coming from them as well … I almost lost for words !!!! [grin]
Hmm, but they are also extraordinarily greedy, so you have to prepare a big trench and fill it with wet newspaper and healthy soil, especially in our area where the soil is so thin and poor. I should really give all the other poor plants in the garden the same attention, but I can’t eat most of them.
I like your priorities ! [grin]
The runner beans look superb and I hope your canes hold up if Bertha does arrive.
We have robbed all the plants that have finished flowering of their canes and reinforced the structure for the beans. I think I can guarantee the non-arrival of Bertha now.
Good luck with your beans and your proofreading corrections! 🙂
Thanks, have I managed to share my time between the two today.
I hope that Bertha didn’t hit you :S
It is just arriving now, but so far only very wet and blustery, though I think this is just the start. Hopefully, the beans are secured.
Keep safe!
Those beans look delicious! And good luck with the proofreading, I know it can definitely be one of the more tedious parts of the writing process.
I rather enjoy proof-reading, but this time, in response to another proof-reader, I decided to alter some contractions throughout. I am now in a nightmare of press-ganging friends to do more proof-reading…
I love runner beans. To eat, and to look at the gorgeous red flowers. My Grandpa used to make a runner bean pickle because his were so prolific it was impossible to get through them all fresh.
Yes, runner beans are wonderful to grow, as they are not edible by the time they get to a supermarket (and I like them smallish), but when they go they go, I never thought of pickling.
Critical constructive friends are just what you need sometimes (but it’s hard to take too 🙂 )
Absolutely, but most progress hurts a little, though the rewards are great.
Such a pretty plant!
They do look pretty. Thank you for bringing me back to this post. Now I can see when the beans started yielding last year.