Full of Beans

After our successful escapade in the warm weather last week, this week was destined to be different from the start. Our wonderful runner bean pole structure that we built last week was looking particularly bare and needed some plants to finish it off. As we begun to plant the runner beans, storm clouds started to gather above us, an ominous sign from Mother Nature. I began to reassure my fellow volunteers but my words of wisdom seemed lost on them. In hindsight, after 10 minutes of being pummelled by hail stones and then heavy rain, my earlier wise words of 'a bit of rain won't hurt' and 'it won't last long' seemed wholly inappropriate. Some of us huddled in the tightly packed shed, with only garden tools and bags of compost for company whilst the rest of our garden troupe decided to make a dash for home, the revision they had been putting off for weeks suddenly seeming very appealing. In the end, the rain did not subside so the rest of us quickly finished planting our runner beans and trudged back to the University. At least we didn't have to water the plants!

Still looking bare but the runner beans have finally been planted.

One of the sweet pepper seeds we planted in February for Go Green Week 2013.