Great Beans Disaster 2 - Electric Boogaloo

Sooooooo much like Rogue One, oooor Romeo and Juliet, you begin this post knowing how it ends! It's said that this increases the enjoyment of films, knowing the twists.

But small digression aside already on the allotment were the onions, looking good and strong, but something had munched on most of the baby spinach.

Possibly Two Weeks Ago

New to the allotment were two pumpkins and two courgette plants which I planted, and mum and dad planted the runner beans around the trellis. (This meant that we still had half the courgettes and pumpkins, and all of the french beans at home.)

We undertook all of this new planting in torrential rain. I found it incredibly fun, bad weather always increases the sense of being in nature, the dog didn't agree with me though...

Immediately following, we had a run of about a week where we weren't able to visit the allotment, in which there were storms, and immense heat, and also some super chilly weather. Needless to say, that didn't bode well for our freshly planted veggies.

When we returned, box of the spare plants in hand, the grass was up to our knees and the runner beans were completely decimated. Three out of the four squash plants had been eaten through at the stems, and even more of the spinach had gone missing!

So over the next two days, I mowed the grass, mum chopping the bits the mower couldn't get to, and we all planted the spare squash and beans. We're even attempting to save the one still marginally alive plant from the original group by potting it!

So we'll see how the new plants fair. It does, unfortunately, mean we're not going to have any runner beans this year, but hopefully the french beans will do well and we'll have loads of those to go around!

That's all for now,

see you next time!

Mort