green beans – Page 3

Rain

Picked a bunch of tomatoes today- and more squash and green beans

Today’s harvest

Looks like the green beans and yellow beans have picked up the pace a bit.

Wine grapes are getting there

Danger!

harvesting

We’ve had a Bit more heat, and a bit more rain. I’ve done more harvesting than anything, here’s a round up.

Tomatoes, blueberries, and beans

Plus a zucchini and some peppers

We canned a bunch of green and runner beans a couple of days ago. This was about a full drawer of veggies (I’d estimate 6lb, one big Pyrex bowl of runners, a bigger one of green beans). This was roughly 4 days of harvest- a glut!

Long pieces are easier to pack.

Took a break

It was a mistake. This was the haul yesterday.

Abundance! 2 days since picking. First Roma tomatoes . Bt

I turned some runner beans into a puree (boil in salt water 4-5 minutes, blend with butter and garlic powder.) it was delicious.

Today’s haul is getting turned into mock Apple crumble.

Artichokes are full of bees

Undillybeans

A couple of days ago we pickled green beans and a tester of scarlet runner beans (with the same recipe). Success! Today we did another round of 6 mixed jars (10 jars total) because the beans are out of control.

That’s just today.

It looks like the sweet spot for the pickles, using this recipe is ~3.5 lbs. That makes 6 jars of beans with 3c each water and 5% white vinegar. 3.5 lbs of beans is roughly twice what’s shown in that picture. That gets us well below the 4.2 ideal ph.

Good hauls

Garlic, rhubarb, and heat.

It’s been a nice cool summer somehow, and we’ve all been happy about it… But today that changes!

I pulled all the garlic to cure. There’s a bunch. The metechi in the south bed seemed a little stunted. I think in general the Deerfield purple gave larger heads.

We also stripped down all the rhubarb, and picked raspberries at a friend’s- for brewing experiments.

Things look good. Good eating. Yellow beans are yellowing, green beans are getting ready to bear, and scarlet runners have given a few. I’ve been pulling squashes while they are small. I’ve got a couple of beds languishing now- I wonder if there is anything I can plant…