Garden, Mid-August

[leahbobet]

There hasn't been a huge amount of action on the garden front this month -- or what action there's been has been eclipsed by the job-hunting, job-landing, and job-working. I did go out to pick beans tonight, though, so a brief picture post:





The windowbox, from whence cometh most of the beans. Although the crazy huge one was actually on one of the smaller original plants. Go figure.




Tonight's small haul: a half-dozen beans big enough to tear from their mother and murder. I'm going to keep them in the fridge until their siblings grow up and make enough for a salad.

Next to that, what will surely be the Prizewinner of this farm: HAND-SIZED GREEN BEAN.




I saw a bee lurking around these, so all goes well and the sex works out, I may well have late cucumbers.

Comments

[feed-your-muse.livejournal.com]

Looks good! My runner beans haven't done well this year - I planted them in a new spot and they don't like it - too much clay in the soil. But, the broad beans I planted (in last year's spot for runners) are growing like nobody's business. I picked so many I've had to freeze them.

What else do you grow?

[lotusice.livejournal.com]

"Some beans!"

(Or a very small casserole...)

[clarentine]

You know you can hand-pollinate the cukes, right? Q-tip, collect pollen from male flower, dab around female flower?

[seabream.livejournal.com]

Apropos of nothing, the long diagonal leaf in the lower left hand quarter of the last picture looks very much like a leaping fish of some sort.