Beans

Beans. Not just any old variety of beans, green beans. That’s the full extent of my knowledge on the subject.

One day last century, a long, long time ago, I was introduced to the lowly green bean at school. I am sure that there was a lot to be learned – I’m just not sure whether I added to my knowledge reserves at the time. As far as I can remember,we were tasked to grow a bean plant in damp cotton wool. Initially,my bean seed showed some progress, but I seem to recall that it became extremely waterlogged and soggy and rotted into the past.

Now, in 2014 I sowed quite a number of beans, and most of them behaved themselves and grew into little green bushes. Unfortunately,they were forced to stagnate for quite a few weeks while the veggie garden bed was being prepared, so the fruit produced may not be quite representative of what should have been…

Of the few plants currently growing, I picked some of the produce for our consumption,with pictures as below:

(Above): Our first veggies from the new veggie patch – green beans 249 grams