Beans means ....

Growing up in the UK one of the regular advertising slots on TV was "Beans means Heinz".  This post will ignore the Goodies adaptation of this but will return to advertising (possibly with a link to beans) later.

While looking round gardensin the UK Frances was impressed by the wigwams most people used as support for beans.  So when we returned 4 wigwams were built, based around some old willow branches.  I would have to say that I don't think any of them would provide great accommodation for a Native American (or indeed any sort of American) family.  However after a couple of false starts due to the high tides they are now up and going.

The latin associated with these beans is Phaseolus coccineus.  The way one of them is going I suspect it may be P. c triffidus.

Since there were two inundations a few slots at the base of the wigwams were not taken up in the first growth.  By the time we could replant the gastropods were active, but we didn't want to use snail bait since that is contraindicated for the small dog.  So we followed the example of friend in protecting her leeks.

Note that our rolls are basic not the flashy Quilton brand.  Still seems to work however.

We also have some scarlet runners growing up a fence.  They have pink flowers, in contrast to the white Strasbourg Giants.

I will also include here another foto of a pheral vegetable in the form of a Poti Marron pumpkin.

The examples of these we grew last year nearly covered our stable and produced a lot of fruit.  The fruit are an attractive orange colour and very easy to peel (unlike Queensland blues which need a cold chisel and a chainsaw).  So we have hopes that as it has now stopped raining and the weather has warmed we are also going to get a good serve of them.