Triple Bean ...

... only one of which might be slightly fried.

As I post today's Blip there is RAIN beating against the window. Hooray! We are forecast a heady maximum of 1mm, but honestly any amount is precious.

I pushed myself to get various jobs done before the southerly change hit at 2.26pm precisely and the rain started (did I mention we had rain?) at 2.33pm.

All the beans are now harvested and laid out on newspaper on the big shelf which is over the cab in the truck (extra 1). The walnuts are there too. They will remain there for a couple of months to completely dry out.

Having stripped the bean plants - and they having been frosted for two nights running - it was time to release them from their wigwams and pull them up (extra 2). I wanted to do this while the plants still had some chlorophyll in them, to add to the compost. 

Three mounded barrowloads later I had a large pile of the plants next to the compost bins, where I ran the lawnmower over and over them to cut them all up as small as possible for optimal bacterial action once added to the compost.

I have cut the final large patch of comfrey in the orchard, chopped it up roughly and spread it across one end of the ex-bean bed, where it will break down over winter. The rest of that bed will be fed seaweed. And in spring it will be the new brassicas bed.

The only job remaining to be done before the rain arrived was to move the onions under cover into the garage.

Bean supervised all this activity in the only way she knows. And now she is similarly occupied beneath two blankets lying on Pink in the truck (next to the heater). She is terribly busy.

And in the time it has taken me to write this Blip the rain is almost gone: a strip of blue sky is widening on the horizon. There will be another frost tonight.