This weeks
harvest monday has a bit more variety, I like that! I'll start with the new things first:
To my surprise some of the shelling bush beans are starting to dry already. These are 'Tiger's Eye' beans and this is just a drop in the hat of the harvest to come. Looks like a few Soldier beans (seed from
Kath) will also be ready for harvest soon.
Here is all the garlic I harvested this year. Not much was planted last fall and I am kind of regretting it now. This variety came from the farmers market. It only produces 3-5 cloves but they are whoppers! I'd say double the size of an average clove. It is now time to place mail orders for garlic, I won't be neglecting to order this year.
A bit less pole beans came in this week. Last week I had a huge collander worth and this week just a few handfuls. The varieties in the basket are Purple Podded & Kentucky Blue.
Here are the last of the peas. I picked these off the vines before composting them. It was a bumper year for peas. Maybe I will try some this fall as well.
To my surprise some of the shelling bush beans are starting to dry already. These are 'Tiger's Eye' beans and this is just a drop in the hat of the harvest to come. Looks like a few Soldier beans (seed from Kath) will also be ready for harvest soon.
Here is all the garlic I harvested this year. Not much was planted last fall and I am kind of regretting it now. This variety came from the farmers market. It only produces 3-5 cloves but they are whoppers! I'd say double the size of an average clove. It is now time to place mail orders for garlic, I won't be neglecting to order this year.
A bit less pole beans came in this week. Last week I had a huge collander worth and this week just a few handfuls. The varieties in the basket are Purple Podded & Kentucky Blue.
Here are the last of the peas. I picked these off the vines before composting them. It was a bumper year for peas. Maybe I will try some this fall as well.
Garlic looks great, so do the peas. I'll have to try peas next year.
ReplyDeleteEverything looks quite tasty! Those purple pole beans are a beautiful deep color. I hope the purple bush beans I am growing are equally as attractive (and hopefully tasty too!).
ReplyDeleteI am going to order a hardneck garlic variety this year. I think my softneck variety seed stock is getting a little tired as the harvest was not very robust this year. Some fresh seed stock and a change of variety might improve the harvest for next year.
I can't get over how some of your veggies are so much ahead of mine, while others are behind. My shelling beans haven't even begun to form pods yet, let alone dry! Did you start those early in the fancy root maker pots?
ReplyDeleteThat garlic is lovely. I didn't plant any for this year, and I'm regretting it now.
Meemsnyc - Peas are really good fresh from the garden. The sugar snap peas are my favorite, you eat the pod and all so the harvest is larger.
ReplyDeleteKitsapfg - I wish the purple beans would stay purple when you cooked them. I'm looking for some hot garlic's this year and purple ones.
Granny - I did start all the beans in the rootrainers. They don't give any better results then peat pots though, I just didn't want to keep buying peat pots. Started them May 1st and then planted them in the garden later that month.
Love the colour of those beans. Yellow & red? Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMy soldier beans are just starting to swell - I did enter them in the village show though, under 'any other vegetable' and came second - not bad considering they are a little under-ready!
ReplyDeleteThere's something addictive about peas and beans isn't there?
Lovely little harvest! I just picked a fairly good pile of green beans and garlic myself. I was happily surprised, because I have let my garden go completely feral since April. I got pregnant and didn't have the energy to get out there. But happily, things survived without even being watered! Green beans are awesome that way.
ReplyDeleteMy summer crops were late going in and my beans are just starting to bloom. Garlic is looking great. Really looking forward to planting some this fall. (I sure hope leek moth doesn't get it !)
ReplyDeleteWonderful harvest !
That's some really big cloves of garlic!
ReplyDeleteWow, dry beans already, my beans are just starting to bloom. The purple beans are beautiful, I grew a purple bush bean last year that was tasty but not as pretty as those.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that you have dry beans already and still have peas.
ReplyDeleteBoy your purple beans look yummy. I sure wish mine would start producing...I think they are at least 10' high
Those tiger's eyes look a lot like my Anasazi beans. I can't believe your beans are dry already!
ReplyDeletegreat tip on the garlic - i'll be ordering some this year for sure as my farmers market ones may have been more suseptable to rust. Plus the market prices are outragous!
ReplyDeleteI too had little to show for garlic this year. I already got my order in for fall garlic. Your beans look great and are really far along. I only got my first beans today.
ReplyDeletePlease help out this bean-newbie here. Are those beans supposed to dry in the pods before you harvest them, or does that mean you left them on vines for too long?
ReplyDeleteThe garlic looks fantastic, as do your green/purple beans and snap peas!
Dan, thanks for your answer about the beans, but I now have another question. Can you harvest these beans as soon as they swell in the pods but before they (and the pods) dry, to eat as shelled beans, or must they dry in the pods first? I assume you rehydrate them somehow when you actually cook/eat them at a later time? Thank you so much for your explanations!
ReplyDeleteI've started peas for fall - doing well so far!
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