The fabulously coloured beans inside the runner bean pods are now drying on a shelf in the porch and I will plant them in the spring.  They may not produce the same type of plants as they did last year as there were several strains of runners which may have cross pollinated – but I can’t resist trying.

I have also saved seeds from the only poppy that actually flowered for me (I planted a whole packet!) but that one poppy plant flowered with multiple blooms and for weeks on end.  So I am hopeful that its progeny will flourish.  We are also savings marigold seeds from the flowers that Jeremy grew in the polytunnel and planted out in the back garden.  They have provided glorious orange heads all summer and are still showing their wares in late October.