Tag Archives: Beans

Heirloom Pole Beans

I admit, I have a weakness. A weakness for heirloom pole beans. But really aren’t they lovely? Bush beans are just fine but towering pole beans are just way more fun in my book, and growing up instead of out conserves space in the garden too.
Going clockwise we have Purple Poded Pole Beans, which are [...]

Otis Orchard

Yesterday afternoon some of our friends came over and we drove out to one of Shannon’s co-workers organic u-pick farm in Otis Orchard. Can you believe we bought all this food for $7?
We started off picking a bucket full of bush snap beans. It was $6 for a bucket, which we split three ways. [...]

Learning As I Grow

I have six crops left in my raised beds right now. Tomatoes, pumpkins, green beans, ground cherries, zucchini and sunflowers (do sunflowers count? I am saving their seeds after all…) The photos above are my quickly ripening cherry romas and stupice. My tomatoes are doing so beautifully this year. They are so heavy with fruit. [...]

July Bounty

This weekend I harvested the rest of my purple haze carrots (which were fantastic and gone very quickly) and yesterday I picked my first handful of empress beans (an stringless heirloom snap bean.)
I actually could have started picking my beans last week but I am saving the seeds from that plant in the hopes [...]