A friend just recommended that I try growing long beans.
This is what I've been able to figure out about them:
Vines are rampant growers (growing to 3' tall) and produce an enormous crop of long, slender, round pods the thickness of a pencil requiring full-sun and well-draining soil. Delicious young green beans are tender when picked at 12-15 inches long, and of fine flavor and quality as snap beans. Long Beans mature in 70 days.
Maybe next summer...
Harvest: 10 yellow pear tomatoes, 3 red grape tomatoes, 2 bambino hybrid eggplant, 2 scarlet globe radishes, 6 heads of baby prize choy bok choy, 1 cucumber, 1 superstar muskmelon (cantelope), and 1oz mibuna asian mustard greens.
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September 13, 2008
September 07, 2008
Small Cucumbers
Lots of little cucumbers on the vine. They seem to be growing much slower than they did earlier in the summer.
Baby Prize choy bok choy ready to harvest.
Harvest: 1 lemon boy tomato.
Baby Prize choy bok choy ready to harvest.
Harvest: 1 lemon boy tomato.
After the Storm
Tropical Storm Hanna left us about 2 inches of rain and minimal damage in our garden.
A few tomatoes were ruined and a muskmelon was split open.
Eggplant, peppers and cucumbers look to be fine.
Must remember to harvest before the storm.
Harvest: 1 cucumber, 3 Radiator Ray's Mortgage Lifter tomatoes, 5 lemon boy tomatoes, 4 red grape tomatoes, 21 yellow pear tomatoes, 1 superstar muskmelon (cantelope), 2 scarlet globe radishes, 3oz of a mix of arugula, deer tongue lettuce, and tom thumb lettuce.
A few tomatoes were ruined and a muskmelon was split open.
Eggplant, peppers and cucumbers look to be fine.
Must remember to harvest before the storm.
Harvest: 1 cucumber, 3 Radiator Ray's Mortgage Lifter tomatoes, 5 lemon boy tomatoes, 4 red grape tomatoes, 21 yellow pear tomatoes, 1 superstar muskmelon (cantelope), 2 scarlet globe radishes, 3oz of a mix of arugula, deer tongue lettuce, and tom thumb lettuce.
September 05, 2008
Radiator Ray's Mortgage Lifter Tomatoes
Lots of Radiator Ray's Mortgage Lifter tomatoes to harvest and eat.
What to do with so many large tomatoes, each weighing a pound.
Harvest: 1 cucumber
What to do with so many large tomatoes, each weighing a pound.
Harvest: 1 cucumber
September 01, 2008
Seed to Plant
Winter squash planted from seed just three weeks ago has leaves that are 4 inches across.
Nature's magic of creating life from such small seeds will never cease to amaze me.
Gorgeous 1 inch eggplants ready to roast.
With today's harvest, the summer garden has paid for itself (value of produce compared to cost of seedlings, soil, trellises, cages, and other materials; assumption that labor is free).
Harvest: 1 cucumber (about 7 inches long), 3 bambino hybrid eggplants
Nature's magic of creating life from such small seeds will never cease to amaze me.
Gorgeous 1 inch eggplants ready to roast.
With today's harvest, the summer garden has paid for itself (value of produce compared to cost of seedlings, soil, trellises, cages, and other materials; assumption that labor is free).
Harvest: 1 cucumber (about 7 inches long), 3 bambino hybrid eggplants
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