Beans

From a correspondent in Kent.

Given that these broad beans appear to stretch back beyond the trees, this must be the biggest field of broad beans that I have ever seen, although we do come across quite big ones at the back of Brading on the Isle of Wight, from time to time.

When I used to grow them on my allotment, quite a lot of them by domestic standards, they used to be a lot bigger than this by now. Time, in fact, to be picking off the lead shoots to keep the blackfly down. Mine were always winter sown but maybe these were spring sown. Maybe they are destined to be minced up for animal fodder rather than turned into frozen beans for our tables.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2017/05/beans.html. Not really serious about beans in Devon.

Reference 2: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2016/06/foxglove.html. Or at the Barbican on the edge of the City.

Reference 3: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2016/07/brading-beans.html. Not so sure about biggest now, with this field looking bigger than I had remembered.