Magic beans

If there’s one vegetable plant I can grow it’s climbing french beans. They were the first thing I grew in this garden, in a pot on the patio. When we were struggling with the allotment and overgrown with bindweed we still managed to harvest enormous quantities of french beans. It’s only natural, then, that the potager’s inaugural year should include these staples. If only so that I can have a fighting chance of some kind of success. Having built our sturdy bean frame earlier this weekend, and