Posted on November 25, 2021November 28, 2021Bean counting highlights Paula and I sorted and weighed yesterday’s harvest. Look at these beauties! They were our favorites of each variety. Inca pea beans are maroon and white in the middle. Clockwise from the top are Alabama blackeye butter lima bean (the big flat white ones), slippery silk (pink ones), California blackeye cowpeas (whitish, not glossy), greasy grits (speckled tan), vaquero (moo cow pattern), and bolas maycoba (creamy color).
Posted on August 4, 2021August 4, 2021Beans lately Bisbee gray cowpea Bisbee red cowpea Purple hulled pinkeye cowpea with my only four runner beans Greasy grits pole bean Inca pea bean
Posted on July 27, 2021July 27, 2021Some beans Left to right: vaquero, mbombo bush (disappointed at color, the original packet beans were like jade), and greasy grits pole beans.
Posted on June 27, 2021June 27, 2021Saturday pictures The standing cypress on the left gets just a bit less sun than the towering thriving one on the right. It’s cracking me up. Rouge vif d’Etampes squash baby. Greasy grits pole bean flowers. First black vernissage tomato ripening! I love these. Small enough that they produce a lot, but big enough for canning. Beetles bumble around and end up pollinating a lot of flowers. Briar examines the potatoes growing in bags. The big leaves are rouge vif d’Etampes squash. Paula’s houseplant is happy. A beetle out late at night. Mexican Plum seedling from home is doing well and getting lots of water with our rainy spell.
Posted on May 9, 2021May 9, 2021Bean sprouts (and their friends) Slippery silks pole bean are up in both beds 1 and 4 Marketmore 76 cucumber in bed 4. None of others up yet. Vaquero bean (a pole bean) in bed 1. Bolas maycoba bean next to lettuce leaf in bed 6. Greasy grits bean (a green pole bean) in bed 1 Mbombo beans (a bush type) in bed 5. Blue lake green bush (another bush type) in bed 5. Dutch corn salad greens beginning to make immature seeds. “hilled” potatoes with more dirt added, so they will grow more roots and thus more potatoes. Inca pea beans are the only ones not up yet. Oregon sugar pod peas all fruiting now with more flowers. The lettuce is thinking about bolting so I’m picking any that are growing taller.