Brading beans

Just about a week ago, the first activity of the day was to take a walk up Nunwell - or perhaps Brading Down - whatever it was behind our cottage.

Skirted the woods and emerged into the open behind Nunwell House, and pushed on to find three fine fields of broad beans, one of which is included left and is to be found at gmaps 50.683022, -1.169637. Slightly puzzled by the small size of the beans, as I think mine would have been harvested by now. Perhaps they are grown as a fodder crop.

On past the beans, through the gate and turned right up the hill (behind the trees top left on the snap above), skirting a field of something grainy which had not long been cut. Slightly puzzled by what it might have been, the wheat round about looking some weeks off being ready for harvest.

But rewarded at the top of the hill by the sight of the Ashey Down sea mark a couple of fields away. A winter close up is to be found at reference 1.

PS: not much carex pendula to be found on this route. But I was to find a good specimen a couple of days later. See reference 2.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/tweet-tweet.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/carex.html.

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