My dwarf bean experiment has not gone quite as well as the carrot experiment. By all accounts I should be up to my ears in them by now. To be honest I am impressed that this tiny plant produced any beans at all. The dreadful cold, wet summer must surely be to blame. That and the irresistibility of young bean shoots to things that go munch in the night. It was rather too late in the season when I realised that I should be planting about ten times as many beans as I was to give any of them a chance of survival.

Anyway, the books say you need to keep picking beans to keep the plant producing them, so I picked this little fella. Anyone got a recipe for a dish where the star is a single green bean?

I have just cottoned on to eat the seasons, a very handy way to find out what veg to buy when.