Here is my first harvest, a handful of tiny broad beans. Each pod is about three inches long, with the beans about a third of an inch in size. I should have let them grow, but couldn't resist sampling a few. The pods smelled wonderfully fresh and green, and the beans were delicious even in a homeopathic dose.
Over the weekend I watered, weeded, put down weed control fabric between the raised beds, and dug out around half of the patch for the next raised bed. Making a quick visit after work today I was encouraged by a neighbour who informed me that I was doing really well. It doesn't entirely feel like it, with half of the patch covered in black plastic. But the potatoes still look healthy, the salad is doing well with rocket, lollo rosso and mesclun all coming up, and about six of the climbing bean plants seem to have taken.
It was my birthday yesterday and I did well for plants: a gooseberry bush, a habanero chilli plant, and some basil, now protected by a copper ring on the garden table. The courgette plants are doing well, I think I can put the corn in soon, but I think I'll have to buy some plants to get tomatoes this year - the seedlings are still only an inch or so long.
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