Another busy few hours in the allotment was spent trying to find plants buried amongst the long grass of the hellawii tribe (a race of very short people who live amongst the tall grass and chant their tribal name to locate each other).  Try it after me "Oh we're the Hellawii, Oh we're the Hellawii". They are related to another far ruder tribe that unfortunately cannot be mentioned on a school blog!

We managed to find 2 lovely blackcurrant bushes and 3 clematis (apparently they are flowers!) Pictures below.

Then onto the far more important job of planting the runner beans which were to go in the last bed that we re-claimed from the weeds last week.  This was by far the worst bed in terms of soil quality so after much more digging and raking I added 2 trugs of well rotted compost and 2 trugs of well rotted manure and it then looked the best of the lot, added the bean poles which I tied together with cable ties (so much stronger and much easier) and then planted 3 types of runner bean, Enorma, Best Of All and another one called a Keen Bean. Pictures Below.

I also had enough time to pot on the cucumbers and a couple of courgettes to stay in the greenhouse for now.  Now relaxing with a very cold beer!