Posted on July 15, 2021July 15, 2021Bisbee gray cowpea purple flower It will be interesting to see if it turns blue over the day like the previous ones did.
Posted on July 14, 2021July 14, 2021Green beans and kohlrabi Leftover hotpot style soup. The Chef also used venison from Paula and chard and kohlrabi leaves in eggrolls. Sauce for eggrolls was South Dakota honey from our esteemed visitor this week!
Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021Bisbee gray cowpea My previous California black-eyed cowpea has cream yellow flowers so I was not expecting purple. That blue smudge is really there and the photo shows it accurately. It wasn’t apparent around 8am when I first got up so I wonder if it’s pollinated and done.
Posted on June 28, 2021June 28, 2021Quarter Gram = 1.76 kg I left this zucchini too long and it was 1.76 kg (about 3.9 pounds). Gram the cat weighs about 14 pounds last we weighed him. Paula’s moss rose has a lovely flower! Briar yawns. Photography of plants is borrrriiiiing. Several inches of rain is settling down dirt over geothermal pipes nicely. Once it’s not slippery mud, I’ll go spread it out more and continue leveling and shaping. You can see seedling ‘Will Rogers’ variety red zinnias on the right, and harder to see are ‘burning embers’ Linnaeus marigold seedlings near the peach tree, for quick orange. Briar looks over green and yellow bed. A triangle of Fordham giant chard with lacinato kale in the middle. The two scraggly plants are coreopsis recovering from being potted up for a month. Around it are dwarf marigold seedlings for more quick yellow. ‘Country gentleman’ sweet corn is flowering. Supervisor exhausted by his earlier brush with the monster zucchini. Book “Bean by Bean: a cookbook” by Crescent Dragonwagon. Lent by the Bean Queen herself, thanks Heather! Lots of interesting bean trivia. More focused on cooking than bean varieties (ie differences among Lima, green, cowpeas, lentils, etc, not varieties within those).
Posted on June 1, 2021June 1, 2021Stop it Apparently corn is just as good as grass to chew on. In less aggravating news, the second set of (newer) Christmas Lima beans are up. I like how you can still see the bean pattern.
Posted on May 25, 2021May 25, 2021Evening things in the Pacific rainforest that is Norman Cowpeas coming up among corn, beets, and peppers. Coreopsis in background. Black coat runner bean flowers. Mini bell pepper flowering. Rouge Vif d’Etampes squash has big leaves! Inca pea bean leaves. Golden jenny melon needs more sun I think. Its seedling seems stuck. Madhu ras melon is in a better spot. This beetle eats solanaceous plants. It is sitting on my Peruvian ground cherry. This beetle is now gone. Presumed beetle eggs. They are gone now. A mysterious giant finger squished them.
Posted on May 20, 2021May 20, 2021New flowers and more harvest Widow sedum (native to northern Great Plains) flowering! Strawberries still going strong and peas continuing at a decent pace. A native fleabane is starting to bloom!
Posted on May 14, 2021May 14, 2021End of lunch break surprise The black coat runner beans are about to bloom!!
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.