This stupid photo won't rotate... so feel free to turn your head to the left... If you click on the photos they will enlarge so you can see the beans uncurling. Amazing when you consider the homogenous nature of the bean when you eat it... something so delicately intricate, and yet robust, can come from such a small bean. Seeds never cease to amaze me!
These photos were taken when the beans were only about 5 days old... unfortunately one type of bean rotted in both of the pots due to the excessive rain we had, but I'm pleased to note that the other two varieties really went to town, and so we will have beans!
Chiara put a few extras in, so I fished those out, and potted them elsewhere to much the same results as the ones in punnets. They are now planted out into the garden, but first, this is what they looked like when they were just coming up - and boy do they come up and grow quickly - no wonder the fairytale was "Jack and the beanstalk" not "Jack and the passionfruit vine".
That one type of bean failed is precisely why it pays to plant a variety of crops... if one fails, you will probably hit a winner somewhere... As for my six varieties of strawberries, they are all behaving quite differently, and so one, which I had all but given up on, is only just starting to flower, when the others are either chugging along, or finished cropping. :0)
Happy Gardening!!!
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