The wet spring (the wettest on record) has been miserable for us humans, but the garden has been loving it. Plants that did well last year have gone crazy this year, beyond all reasonable expectation. This includes: Tomato plants (both bush-type and climbing-type) that have gone wild, taking over everything. Beans and snowpeas producing vigorously. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘beans’
A jungle of tomatoes
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged beans, celery, cucumber, snowpeas, summer, sweetcorn, tomatoes on December 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is how many beans we’re harvesting
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged beans, spring on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The bean plants are really coming into their own! This is how many beans we’re harvesting each day or two, and we’re already creating a backlog in the fridge. We need to eat more beans!
Three colours bean
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged beans, spring on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve eaten our first beans tonight, in three colours: green, yellow and purple. The bean bushes are just ramping up at the moment, so plenty more to come! I blanched these, and served them with olive oil, lemon juice, mint, feta and pine nuts. Yum.
Bush beans coming up
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged beans, pumpkins, spring on September 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Despite the earlier bad news, the first of our bush beans are pushing themselves forcefully out of the ground. They are a week late, so perhaps seed storage in the fridge put them into a dormant state, rather than killing them outright. One lonely pumpkin has also come up, which I’ve supplemented with two others [...]
Planting record: beans and pumpkins
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged beans, pumpkins, spring on August 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I did some gardening this morning before work, and for my planting record, this is what went into my new garden beds: Bean, Violet Queen Bush Bean – harvest in 60d Bean, Sex Without Strings (dwarf butter bean) – harvest in 87d Bean, Gourmet’s Delight (dwarf bush bean) – harvest in 60-70d Bean, Stringless Pioneer [...]
