First Tomatoes and French Beans of the Season

[Alison]

Despite not sowing as early as many of you and the start of the year being pretty pants, I've now started harvesting tomatoes. Picked the first two yesterday from hanging baskets in the polytunnel. Maskotka basket type and they were lovely and sweet. Also harvested a punnet of French Beans (Crystal Wax from HSL) which were way ahead of my climbing ones outside. Came back from the plot with that, a lot of mange tout, some early potatoes, the first of the raspberries, loads of strawberries, loads of peas and a few carrots. Happy days

[Flummery]

Lovely time of year isn't it?
I've got pickable Early Warwick dwarf french beans (from Hazel) ready but I leave them to eat as shellies. We've had absolutel loads of Kent Blue mangetout peas (from Muckdiva) too and I've picked enough strawbs to eat as many as we can, give some away and still make 7lb of jam. First Crimson Fowered broadies (Muckdiva again!) on Tuesday and several lots of Goldensweet mt peas and Ezethas (Birdie Wife) and ones that failed to 'save for seed' test from my purple mangetout patch.
What would we be growing without our fellow grapes, I wonder?

[Alison]

My Crimson Flowered which I had from you, Flum, aren't quite ready, maybe this time next year which is loads later than last year. Not grown quite as many this time but am really looking forward to them.

[Two_Sheds]

You can both go sit in the corner for showing off


(I only have green toms, green chillies, and French bean flowers)

[Flummery]

You had the first broadies though!

[coreopsis]

You can both go sit in the corner for showing off


(I only have green toms, green chillies, and French bean flowers)

not even flowers on any beans

[Comfreyfan]

I'm very impressed and jealous!

I didn't start anything until really late this year - so I'm hoping my harvests will last waaaay into autumn! When we used to have summer (!) I could harvest toms from the greenhouse until November and once until Christmas, so that's what I'm aiming for this year!