Graeme , if I have too many beans I pod them and just keep the actual beans freeze them and then add them to stews pies and one pot meals, the same can be done with your borlotti beans and also your Greek Gigantes. Also you can dry them out and put them in jars On the shelf, which look beautiful or put them in bags and put them in the freezer, that’s what I’m doing this afternoon. Cos some kind soul had left some runner beans in a carrier bag by the gate “Free to a good home” . My runner beans have been awful this year cause I’ve been in for two operations etc so not been around so much. So I’m just podding the tough beans which most of them are to be honest and composting all the greenery. Hope that helps a bit.. PS, you’ve done amazingly with your beans this year and yes I think you have grown a lot. I would just stick to a couple of varieties but it’s your allotment. Whatever floats your boat mate.. all the best x

Put your bean plants into your compost!

The back of your jumper with all the foliage stuck to you. 😂. I come back with mud and straw all over me. I won't tell you where I sometimes find straw when I come home to get changed. 😄

No need to blanche beans at all .Ive been freezing direct for years and they still taste as good a year later 🙂I only grow Cobra and Cosse Violetta as we love them .Borletti you dry the beans preferably on the plant but just dry them in a warm place .Add to soups and stews like Greek Gigantes .Chard cop the stalks and then chop the leaves .Fry the stalks ,then add the leaves and then add eggs beaten .Lovely tasty omelette .I add cheese 😋

All this rain is killing me off my plants need sun ✌️

Ive just got my allotment and im Growing Herbal Medicine 🫡

Great content. We pull all of our runner beans. We then mulch up with our old Faithfull Honda mower and add them to our mix compost heap.

Hello, Graeme! Don't throw your dried peppers away. Take them off the plants and continue to let them dry all the way, Remove the stems and some of the seeds if you think they'll make them too hot. Grind the dried peppers for seasonings. If you really enjoy the flavors, use the dried seeds to grow more next year.

Which they would devise a way to channel rain of a poly tunnel. Seems such a waste for the water not to be collected into a water butt when there is so much surface area to harvest…. Gonna put my thinking cap on🤩

Was thinking of buying the green tunnel covers but after seeing the holes in yours only after one year I think I’m gonna have a rethink 😐

Yes, I agree with all the lovely comments below. And very happy with your clever use of music. Not too much and you don’t have in the background while you are talking which I find annoying with other RU-vidrs. But your use is well balanced and jolly happy music ❤

For the borlotto and the greek gigantes, i would depod them and freeze the fresh beans, use like you would dried beans. in soups, stews, etc.

Compost the bean tops and leave the roots in the ground 👍

I pod the gigantes and put them straight into freezer bags. The beans must be fully fresh to do that. If they are starting to dry, they must be left to fully dry. Great harvest. Lovely update. We dig a trench and throw in the bean vines to die down then cover it ready for growing next years crop. I dont know how to preserve the borlotti.

Forget to mention. With the wilted pepper plants, you might be able to salvage them by watering heavy and see if they perk up so you can get the rest of pepper harvest. I've had mine wilted down like that and sometimes the watering works to bring them back fairly quickly. I know what it's like to have too many things going on to keep up with everything.

Home grown vegetables the way forward,nice plot you have,well done 😊

Don’t dump the carrot tops they are edible. I dry mine in an air drier 80degrees until they crumble in your hands into powder. Pop them in a herb bottle and use in stews etc during winter

Your beloved beans need to harden up and go crisp, same as Greek gigantis, don't burn bean foliage, chop n drop in your beds as they are full of nitron

Leave the chard in garden will grow in the cold

Great haul there Graeme. Lots of lovely Sunday dinners. I grow Greek Gigantes and usually leave them on the plants to dry before picking but if the weather is against that I pick them off once the lovely big beans have formed and lay them out in the potting shed to dry off. Once that's done, I pod them and leave the beans to dry out completely before storing in jars. As for cooking I soak a handful or so overnight, drain, add fresh water (no salt - you can season once cooked) and boil them up until tender. Throw them in some soup or make a tasty sauce to go with them. Yum, a lovely creamy bean. We remove the plants at ground level, leaving the roots in the soil to regrow the following year, mow the stems and leaves and put in the compost bin.

Think leaving beans on to dry is a popular option. U can make huge pot stew with all vegetable and don't have to cook for days or keep feeding the pot.

Chop the beans at ground level, then add the rest to your compost heap. The roots will add nitrogen to the soil and improve it for next year. Keep making these videos as they are a joy to watch.

I wouldn't go near weed membrane. If you are covering with wood chips and beds you will initially suppress the weeds anyway. Then the paths just need topping off to continue to suppress. Weeds will find their way into the wood chips so you will get weeds regardless. Weed membrane will break up or snag over time and will find it's way into the top layer as I had and you will continue to pull strands of membrane for years to come. Loving the garden content by the way.

As others said the weeds will grow on it unless you sweep it clean frequently. If you don't it's a mess by the second year and hard to get back up.

Weed membrane is anything but weed free .Just whack a thick layer of heavy duty plastic and cut holes to plant or just use woodchip .Its far easier to just hoe woodchip and top up as needed .

Weed membrane breaks plastic pieces if your going down that root black plastic is better look at Temu ive had good stuff from there my latest purchase was a brush cutter as always happy gardening Richardx

I use weed membrane, but once you put wood chips on top, within a year or two you'll have weeds growing in the woodchips. I speak from experience.

Hope we can keep in touch with each other can I ask why your dad packed his allotment up I am a 65 year old man and I know how hard it is to do I hope next year is better than this year was I really enjoyed your blog I would like to keep InTouch and see how each other allotment works out

You are really lucky I went to the allotment today just to check if it was water logged at it was what you say about rise beds is not right my poly tulle has rise beds and all this rain even the beds are flooded were we are the council has diverted the beck and now we get all the water I put chippings down on my plots and they are even floating in all the water it's going to take weeks before the water goes down and then I will see what I can do with it

nice to see you back, the green house door go to the pound shop and get a cheap tub of vasoline /petroleum jelly and smear it on the runners

Mine allotment looks exactly like yours 😅, its ok xx

Make dads a fruit tree guild and somewhere to grow spreaders like squash .

Good to see you back on the plot it's been a very tough season this year

I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with your Dad's old plot.

You are braver than me, I have just been crocheting in the dry 🤣 Good to have you back though Graeme 🤗

Indeed so much to do and dont forge to poo!

Graeme I bought a sheet of super therm poly tunnel plastic from first Tunnels. Tbh it cost me as much a whole tunnel like the cheap one you are referring to. There is an online tool on their website that helps you to measure how much you need. Also remember that you will need the UV tape to go over the bars on the top of the tunnel to protect it from the Sun. My frame like yours is still a strong as before and I have had it seven years, I have bought two separate covers for it each costing about £60. This time I am using the proper stuff and although it may cost a bit as so far stood up to all the storms and all the bad weather. We’ve had all the last two seasons with no issues.. I would recommend this.

Your videos Graeme make me smile

I love your videos! Clever camera angles and jolly conversation. Love those gaudy glasses!

Stunning views

Heavenly beautiful scenery my friend. Shots are simply amazing 🙏🙏

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First time watching, enjoyed it

Wow! Gorgeous harvest.

Nice looking girl in the thumbnail ,parents most have been Stunners,