More veggies

Well I've gotten 3 bowlfuls of beans from the garden so far this year -- but I'm learning a few things as I go:

1) Pick beans early! I'm still picking them a little late, and they get rather fibery!
2) Buy the stringless variety!! Some seem to be fine, but others feels like eating floss!
3) Watch for sunlight! My cucumbers last year were awesome, but this year they are small and everything associated with them (leaves, fruit, etc) is yellow. I think it is too much water and not enough light. Those rasperries are blocking the sunlight!

But I am getting some peppers -- I planted all the colors, but so far all we have is green!

Harvesting The Garden

Last year was the first year I really had a garden since it was the first year I really had a house. I really enjoyed it and this year I once again planted a garden.

I've been harvesting some sugar snap peas for quite a while now, getting a few here and there and snacking on them at work. But tonight I went out and harvested a lot of green beans. These all came from bush beans that I started from seed, planting them rather late (probably end of May). I got a whole big bowlful of beans from just the bush beans. And you can see from the picture below I also got 2 whole raspberries and 2 whole carrots. In fact, I didn't even plant any carrots this year or the year before, but they keep popping up. I'm pulling them like weeds.


This is the progress of my garden so far... in the bottom of the picture I have a flower garden, and then in the middle garden I have lots of peppers, watermelon, cucumbers, raspberries, and chives. Then in the back of the garden by the fence I have pole green beans, bush beans, more peppers, snap peas, and there are carrots scattered about. We have a strawberry plant too in another area of the yard.