On 17/09/2012 13:44, Dartmoor Will wrote:
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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Sorry to be sarky Will. Are you going to pickle your one runner bean,
as evidence of the terrible summer of 2012. ;-)

Joe
Wolverhampton.