8/3/2011
The last couple of days I have spent ripping out the spent bush bean plants to make way for a late crop of spinach, beets, and hopefully collards, the time left for them to grow is short but if heavy frost holds off long enough there will be time for me to enjoy fresh greens, yummmmm
The bean and potato plants were mowed and caught in the bag then placed in the composter :)
I have also harvested about 2/3 of my potato crop for early ones. I got about 8 pounds of them, many still very small, bite size.
As you can see in the foreground of the above image, the yard and part of the garden has been overrun with crab grass. The real grass isn't growing, it has been too hot and dry so it's dormant. The last couple of days we have had a little bit of rain but not enough.
Pole beans are about finished
Have not had any ripe cherry tomatoes and I have picked only a few partially ripe rutgers to ripen on the kitchen counter. There are loads of nice green ones of all types out there though. I planted 5 different types of tomatoes.
The foreign beans are doing very well, they have full pods and I have been picking and shelling the most mature/dry pods. The image shows Bantu beans from Uganda. They are in several colors, pink which turns purple when they dry, gray, and tan. Next year I will be able to sample these beans, but for this year's crop, I am saving them for seed. I started out with 15 seeds this spring. This year's crop should plant 20-30 feet next year. That's still not a lot for soup beans but it should give me a few small pots of beans :)
The Italian Fagiolina beans are very small. They won't make much when they are all shelled. I'm not sure I want to bother with them next year, my space is limited and they don't produce enough for what space they use. But I will wait till next year to make that decision. If I can, I would like to keep them as part of the garden.
The last couple of days I have spent ripping out the spent bush bean plants to make way for a late crop of spinach, beets, and hopefully collards, the time left for them to grow is short but if heavy frost holds off long enough there will be time for me to enjoy fresh greens, yummmmm
The bean and potato plants were mowed and caught in the bag then placed in the composter :)
I have also harvested about 2/3 of my potato crop for early ones. I got about 8 pounds of them, many still very small, bite size.
As you can see in the foreground of the above image, the yard and part of the garden has been overrun with crab grass. The real grass isn't growing, it has been too hot and dry so it's dormant. The last couple of days we have had a little bit of rain but not enough.
Pole beans are about finished
Have not had any ripe cherry tomatoes and I have picked only a few partially ripe rutgers to ripen on the kitchen counter. There are loads of nice green ones of all types out there though. I planted 5 different types of tomatoes.
The foreign beans are doing very well, they have full pods and I have been picking and shelling the most mature/dry pods. The image shows Bantu beans from Uganda. They are in several colors, pink which turns purple when they dry, gray, and tan. Next year I will be able to sample these beans, but for this year's crop, I am saving them for seed. I started out with 15 seeds this spring. This year's crop should plant 20-30 feet next year. That's still not a lot for soup beans but it should give me a few small pots of beans :)
The Italian Fagiolina beans are very small. They won't make much when they are all shelled. I'm not sure I want to bother with them next year, my space is limited and they don't produce enough for what space they use. But I will wait till next year to make that decision. If I can, I would like to keep them as part of the garden.
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