Showing posts with label Garden Contender bush bean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden Contender bush bean. Show all posts
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Beetles Are Having a Fiesta!
Extension service suggested 2 Tbs baby shampoo + 2 Tbs veggie oil + 1 gallon water sprayed on plant with spray bottle. I did this this morning...will let you know. Ick ick ick I feel like there are Mexican bean beetles crawling all over me.
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
June 23, 2013
This weekend Alan I worked in the garden some more. The asparagus bean plant (which produces beans that are supposed to taste like asparagus - I am looking forward to trying these!) jumped up and germinated a week or so earlier than expected, so Alan went ahead and made a trellis out of some tree limbs we had laying around.
I weeded and mulched around the newly germinated squash, asparagus bean plant, blue lake bush beans, garden contender bean and okra. Still no sight of the carrots.
Then I mulched around the bean plants that are already established, threw around some 10-10-10 fertilizer (after the disappointing results of my soil test), and planted cucumbers. I tried to help Alan till between the corn and beans with the little tiller, but tilled up a bean plant in the process and decided I better leave the hard work to him.
I harvested some more beans and a little kale. I realized some of the surviving bean plants from our first attempt at the garden this year are lima beans! Yay!
I weeded and mulched around the newly germinated squash, asparagus bean plant, blue lake bush beans, garden contender bean and okra. Still no sight of the carrots.
Then I mulched around the bean plants that are already established, threw around some 10-10-10 fertilizer (after the disappointing results of my soil test), and planted cucumbers. I tried to help Alan till between the corn and beans with the little tiller, but tilled up a bean plant in the process and decided I better leave the hard work to him.
I harvested some more beans and a little kale. I realized some of the surviving bean plants from our first attempt at the garden this year are lima beans! Yay!
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| Still a ton of grass, but at least there are vegetables in there in between the grass! |
The beans are so fresh and so yummy. I discovered a great recipe for them and posted it on my FeedMeSomething.blogspot.com blog. We ate much of this and then I froze the rest after blanching.
Monday, June 17, 2013
June 17th, 2013
We worked our tails off this weekend!! Saturday we planted more yellow crookneck squash, butternut squash, carrots (Danvers, Long Imperator #58 and Red Cored Chantenay), and Blue Lake bush beans. Alan tilled and mounded up some more rows and I soaked the asparagus beans, okra and Garden Contender bush beans overnight and planted them on Sunday. Julia helped me remove weeds, plant seeds and water them in. It was a fun to spend time with my sweet, incredibly helpful daughter.
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| Corn |
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| Beans, beans, good for the heart... |
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| Ick on tomatoes. Catfacing??? |
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| Beans - Fordhook? |
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| Kale |
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| Sunflowers |
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| Carrots planted earlier |
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| Vertical rows |
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| Sweet Potatoes |
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| Onions and hopefully there is some garlic in there somewhere |
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| Squash planted earlier |
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| Baby Yellow Crookneck Squash |
We have sectioned off a section of the garden that gets too
much water to use for composting. I am
going to use the trench method described in Joy of Gardening. We have covered it with a tarp hoping that will kill off the unbelievably out of control grass and weeds.
The first two vertical rows that were planted with yellow
crookneck squash and butternut squash have germinated! Last night we had a big rain, and today it
looks like everything is still intact!
Yay! We might actually get some
vegetables out of this garden after all!!
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