Be prepared

The scouts motto it may be but you can never be too prepared when it comes to Christmas time and these jars of pickled onions will be perfect for Boxing day with some cold cuts.

Come Christmas and come the new year quickly after, we now have all of next years saved bean varieties saved and drying ready for sowing in spring. Three varieties are from Serbia, two are grown for the beans and one variety for the pods or beans giving it a dual use. The Spagna bianco or "gigantes! butterbean type are brilliant and will be grown en mass this coming year.