More to harvest

You can only have so many pictures of beans, so this is one of a few of my onions. I have pulled up those whose tops were dry and brown, and those where the tops were bending over, and they are now drying in the greenhouse. These were the onions from sets - the onions from seeds are still growing strongly. The size is good, and they all look healthy. It's a mark of how early the season is that, not only have I started harvesting onions, but the sweetcorn are nearly ready.
 The peas and broad beans have of course now finished, but I am picking lots of French beans and runner beans, as well as beetroot, potatoes and courgettes. (If I had room, I would make successional sowings of the peas and broad beans, but this is not possible.) The French beans are all being cut up, blanched and put in the freezer as they freeze so well, and are a delight during the dark days of winter. The runners do not freeze well though, so we are eating them fresh and giving loads away. The potatoes (Kestrel, second early) - a small harvest, because of the weather? - are super baked or roast, not so good boiled as the skins come off and the potato tends to break up. But they are at least slug resistant. My butternut squash have gone mad - one now has runners ten feet long - which is I suppose a reflection on the weather, which has been hot and sunny - and dry. I have to water every 2 or 3 days. We had some rain the week before last, but none since, and the days have consistently been in the mid 20s C, with nights in the high teens.