Beans are quite easy to grow. We all know this. You take a dried husk of a thing, put it in some compost and then about 2 weeks later up it comes, raring to grow.

 This has always been my experience of them anyway up until this year. This year I have had no end of problem with mine and it is mostly my fault.

 I am what could be described as an inpatient gardener. When March turns up I like to get pretty much everything going. Tougher seeds are planted at the allotment, parsnips and early ca...

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In my joy at the my first asparagus spear on Monday you may have missed that I planted out my peas and beans. I thought that it was warm enough at night for my beans, even when I was questioned about it by my friend Liz I arrogantly stated that they would by fine. Oh how wrong I was. I popped down today to water my seeds, no rain for at least a fortnight, and was greeted with this,

 

Dead beans. Probably frozen to death like Captain Scott's co-workers. Oh well, a mistake was made and w...
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I could go on and on about what I’ve planted and what I’ve done at the allotment (peas and beans by the way) but that would be boring and not as important as this,

 

That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is my first ever spear of Asparagus. Oh yes, I planted the bed last year and now it is paying dividend. I am so very proud.

Let’s just look at that again,

 

When it is ready I am going to enjoy it soooooooo much.

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