A look back over 2019’s sowing and reaping, from a bumper bean crop to stunning sweet peas
The end of another year, our 12th at the allotment, since Mary kindly took us in, gave us a garden home, a place to grow in exchange for humping sacks and building bits and bobs.
It was a good year for broad beans, with two sowings (early Aquadulce, later Witkiem) both steamed or eaten straight from the pod. Their tops were a spring gardening treat dressed with olive oil. I left it late for early potatoes, missing the RHS spring fair, though they cropped well enough. Basque tears peas as always, were enjoyed young then left to seed. Later, I trained morning glory up the pea poles, an astonishing blue-mauve catching the morning light. We loved them and will be growing them again in 2020.
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