One lovely looking dark Green pumpkin has emerged from amongst the runner beans – I had given up on this plant – I thought it had withered away but has suddenly started crawling around the base of the wigwams.
I’ll be keeping an eye in this and probably making sure that it doesn’t try to produce any more fruits – as I would be amazed if there is enough nutrients in the soil after the runner beans have depleted it.
The largest pumpkin I have been able to produce so far was about the size of a lawn bowls ball (not a bowling ball) so I am hoping to better that at least – I would love to try to grow more next year – i love pumpkins and they store so easily.

2 weeks away on holiday – and on my return the Runner beans and French beans have gone crazy. They are now huge.

I picked a bucket full of each – and still there were more on the plants.
Ive been eating lots runner beans for lunch and supper.
Looks like I may need to find a storage solution – l’ll have to look into pickling.

We have quite a few other varieties of beans that are catching up with them too.

Popped up to the allotment last night for a bit of harvesting – got another big plastic bag full of Mizuna, Rocket, Orach, Kale and Spinach and a box of sweet peas, runner beans and courgettes – I’m really liking the short stubby courgettes that seem to be coming from one of my plants – I think I’ll try to keep some seeds from that one. I’m pretty sure I will come back to some huge courgettes after my 2 week holiday.

Must ask the nieghbour to water my plot whilst I am away.

20 runner beans
10 courgettes
4 big telegraph peas
Bucket of cherries
Carrier bag of Mizuna, Rocket, Orach, Perpetual Spinach

I am loving the visits to the allotment even more now – instead of just watering and weeding – we are now going home with the rewards.

Bought back home the following yesterday…
1 Courgette.
3 runner beans.
Bunch of Kale.
2 Pots of cherries.
1 Bag of Mizuna

soon we will also be picking the Rocket/Orach/Perpetual Spinach and many many more beans of a all types.

Started harvesting a few things this week. We had 2 large courgettes from our plot …

…and the Mizuna is ready to pick – they have suddenly turned into large bushy clumps of tasty leaves.
The runner beans are growing in size and should hopefully be ready to start picking over the weekend.

Below are the cabbages and sprouts – doing OK I think – at least with the netting they have not been destroyed by caterpillars.

I also have some Kale here – that I started picking the leaves of last weekend – they went down well the other night with some sausages.

The other salad leaves (Orach, Perpetual Spinach and Rocket) are getting going and may need thinning out soon too.

Also – my girlfriend planted some edamame beans and these do not seem to be getting very big yet – not sure about how they should be growing though – maybe they will shoot up later in the summer.

Spent 4 hours of Saturday at the plot. Got a lock installed on the shed door and built another brassica net.
We did lots of weeding too – they really are trying their best to take over. The bindweed needs constantly pulling out – but the roots only come out half of the time I am starting to think i am on to a losing battle by just yanking them out.

The runner beans and courgettes are all taking off now – there are flowers on the courgettes and the beans are finally spiralling up the canes.

One of our raspberries seems to have bitten the dust and we can only assume that too much manure was left around the base of the stem.

I took a couple of pictures on our departure…

A few of these have been nibbled to bits by the slugs – but my runner beans are all emerging from the ground and will shortly be heading up the wigwams – hopefully.