There has been bean failure

Hmm - it was suggested to me that runner beans with white flowers were not pecked at by sparrows. Wrong! Even dangling CDs didn't put them off. Using them as frisbees might have been better. So, dragged in their pots to the fruit cage, where the beans with the red flowers are. It's therefore a bit of a race, the motley red flowered plants growing in near rock-hard clay v the white flowered equivalent in pots with decent compost but well-pecked.

Still, have to remain positive, next year the strawberry crop is bound to be better than this year - 4 (berries that is, not kilos).