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Has bean: french bean & tomato relish

by David Whitehouse
Has bean: french bean & tomato relish

The thing that has surprised me most with this year’s first steps in growing vegetables has been just how many beans you get from a few plants tucked in amongst the flowers. First to crop were the dwarf beans, then the runner beans kicked in (and have been amazingly productive, even climbing over the fence [...]

The loneliness of the long distance runner bean

by David Whitehouse
The loneliness of the long distance runner bean

Runner Bean Mustard Pickle: It’s odd how sometimes mentioning something, even to dismiss it, can spark a smouldering interest which you find yourself returning to later; and having sorted out my french bean surplus without resorting to the ‘piccalilli’ solution, I still needed to do something with my continuing bumper crop of runner beans. The [...]

Runner Bean & Pepper Relish

by David Whitehouse
Runner Bean & Pepper Relish

Just after Christmas is hardly the time to be making chutney with anything from your garden (unless someone has invented Brussels Sprout chutney, there may be an opening there!), but late in the season I did make a batch of Runner Bean & Pepper Relish, using up some of our late runner bean harvest and [...]