Would you like broad beans with that?

One of the best gluts of the year is upon us. For the third week in a row, I have come home with a sack full of beans. For two weeks before that I was having small harvest. Can do loads with Fava beans though - handy as cos of the rain all week, some have got a little big so need something bit different doing to them. Am going to make Fava bean puree later.

Now have thirty tomato plants in, 6 sweet peppers, dwarf borlottis, French beans, and what Runners I have in at the plot. I have station sown more runners to make up for the pitiful germination rate I had at home. Did I say I have about 16 hot chillis at the plot so should not run out this year.

And, having just pulled an overwintering onion - I can say that I was self-sufficient in onions last year as I put six smallish maincrop onions from last year in the Lentil soup I made yesterday.

Too much school

Cuh - half term is only a week long. Think we work kids too hard and should give em more holidays meself.

Anyways - during the too short half term, I got in most of the rest of my brassicas - red cabbage, calabrese, kohl rabi, sprouts, swedes and a couple of curly kale that had evaded the snails at home. They are looking fine and dandy - watered in with nettle tea. Have also got 5 pepper plants in, sown some french beans around my chillies and planted out 2 Buttercup, 2 Hubbard and 1 Jack o'Lantern squash, half my toms and what runners have germinated (they have been rubbish this year). Got more winter and summer squash to do this weekend. Everything is looking good so far. Oh yeah, forgot - got about 25 sweetcorn in and sown a load more.

There was summat else I wanted to put but have forgotten what it was.