These are dwarf french beans "Pongo". They are a late variety and I put the seeds into the ground in early July. The seeds were several years old, by the way, but I had kept them in the 'fridge. Now look at them 8 weeks later! I will definately be using these again. We are picking beans from them now. Still picking sweet corn. The late potoes came up in mid-August and they look good and we had a good yield, a whole sackful. We have left the cabbages (red and savoy) in the gound - seems to be the best place to store them. The runner beans are still producing. I transplanted in some spring cabbage and purple sprouting broccoli, which will be ready next year. And the really good news is that the second planting of cauliflowers has just started to produce - here's a picture of one taken through the netting it lives under. We should get 9 out of the 11 I put in. Two have bolted - I think they got a bit dry.
The places where nothing is growing have been sown with green manure Phacaelia. Should be up by end November and then I'll turn it onto the ground before it flowers.
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