The Potager

We planted a random variety of stuff a while ago. It wasn't as much as we had hoped to get in because we just didn't have time with all the other things we had to do. However it was an interesting learning experience preparing the land and finding out where to source seeds (or more where not to source them, the shops locally seem very expensive for a lot of things).
Some things are now ready (we already had some lettuce and potatoes) and some are starting to look like they might one day be ready.

Miniature French Beans (the plant is miniature not the beans).
They have flowers

and beans

You can see we expected them to be bigger (having failed to see the word 'nain' meaning miniature in French in the title).

We were surprised to suddently notice fully grown beans on them yesterday. Nice surprise, we had them in salad with a home grown lettuce.

We planted 13 plants more (there are 3 at the moment) last week which should have beans in October (although they have germinated much faster than the original three now it is warmer so perhaps it will be sooner)

Tougues of Fire Beans (they will come out pink and splotchy - type of Borlotti bean)
I think we can eat these when the bean is still green as 'mange toute' or let them mature and then eat shelled. Possibly we can dry them when mature to keep over the winter or freeze if they don't dry before the damp weather. Not sure what size of crop we will get of them. They are growing fast and have some little beans. You can see they were more the size we anticipated when making the frame.

Sweetcorn
We don't have many but it looks like each plan has more than one corn on it.

 The corns have appeared. Not sure how we tell when they are ready to harvest (better check the all knowing internet)

Rhubarb
Has grown massively. When we planted it it was a runty little thing which we left in the pot for ages after buying it and alternated between flood and drought. We haven't eaten any yet but plan to do so soon (but not the leaves as they are poisonous)

Onions
We bought them as seedlings, all 30 (or maybe it was 40) came in a single pot. They suffered somewhat like the Rhubarb from not being planted straight away and being rained on to excess and allowed to dry out in between.

 They seem to be doing ok now though

Peanuts
This was a bit of an impulse by in Point Vert. We are keen to make our own peanut butter and thought it would be fun to grow the peanuts. Perhaps they are not the most high priority thing to have planted.
They are growing quite slowly and now have flowers. The peanuts will be on the roots a bit like potatoes frow when we dig them up (consultation of internet required again to tell when they are ready - I think it is when the plants die back)

Asparagus
We planted these although it wasn't quite the right time of year. Perhaps we will see some action from them next spring... or perhaps not. We plan on planting some more somewhere anyway to increase chances of a crop at some point. It takes them some years to get established.


New plantings
We have just planted some carrots, some chard and some more of the miniature french beans. We plan on doing some kale for over the winter and some broad beans and peas for harvest in the spring. They will go in on the current pig plot once we either move the pigs or they go to the abatoir (hopefully we will get it together to move them but where we want them to go it is harder to get water too...)