Many parts of Scotland are suffering water shortages and crop failures. Climate change means thinking hard about growing plants that can stand up to unusual hot and dry weather. At the community garden, the lack of a water supply means our plants are always short of water, so this year was particularly difficult. Our tender seedlings took ages to get established, and those that survived are flowering late, too. Take our runner beans: they struggled to grow in the dry weather and it’s good to see the flowers waving in the breeze, at last. They are heritage beans, which may have helped them survive. Shirley’s poem celebrates our bean flowers…
Meadows Community Gardens 