Picked my first runner bean of the season this morning! Planted out the
young plants in June and it has taken this long to get a crop. If it had not
been for this warm and sunny Sept. I would have got nothing at all, like my
peas.

The picking is about 3 weeks later than normal as I usually start to crop in
late August. It's always going to be difficult growing veg. 1000 feet up on
dartmoor but this year has been very hard due to the extremely wet and
cloudy summer. Amazingly the red flowers on the beans are stunning, and
there are a lot of them, so if the weather stays fine I'll even have a few
for the freezer!

Cheers from a sunny and warm dartmoor.

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Will Hand (Haytor, Devon, 1017 feet asl)
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