Best for a while

It was our sunniest day since the beginning of the month and a touch milder than the last few days. As the over night temperature fell into single figures again the day as a whole didn't improve the month's cool average figure of 16°C.

On the plot it was broad beans harvesting time. After a germination failure with our first Crimson Flowered broad beans our second attempt has been very successful. The key to succulent broad beans is picking them young before the beans mature in the pod. This is especially important with the Crimson Flowered variety. It saves all that effort of shelling broad beans as seen on fine dining programmes where a helping of broad beans consists of just a couple of beans but of course they are beautifully placed on the plate.