A busy day in the garden. I mowed the lawn while Rich disposed of the remnants of the unproductive strawberry plants, then we got down to the planting.

The French beans, as I’ve already written here, seem to have thoroughly exhausted themselves, so we bought some dwarf French beans and dug them into the plot, then opened up the pack of squash seeds I’d bought at the agricultural college two weeks ago and dropped them into pots of manure-mixed compost. I was quite shocked to find that the

1. Squash and Dwarf French Beans
   Squash saplings We're starting to run low on beans. We took another 580 grams from the runners and 225 grams from the French on...
   
   
2. Has-beans
   I'm worries about the beans. They've been going great guns, and have so far provided enough veg for five meals. I'm worried about the lack...
   
   
3. Beanpoles
   The garden is really getting carried away with itself now. For the first few weeks it all seemed to be nice and controlled and refined,...