First Pickings

 

It took some time, and even more patience to see my garden take off this year. I lost my lettuce to the hot weather and some of my veggies decided to be persnickety and not grow as their companions did for no good reason. I saw a sign on Pinterest saying "Grow Damnit!" It will be in my garden as soon as I can find some paint and wood. Today, I finally got J to help me pound in the giant fence posts that he salvaged from an old garden fence in our back woods. From these rusty giants, I strung twine that I was able to tie more twine to for my beans to grow up and to lend support to my tomato heavy vines. While assisting my plants in standing on their own, I noticed my beans had sprung! I had beans reaching the ground, some probably 4 inches long! Yikes!!! I didn't plan beans for dinner, but I came in with a Tupperware of beans, one pepper and a shriveled tomato (poor thing). The first pickings from my garden was an exciting moment in this house and J kindly ate a bean prior to washing and reported them to be sweeter than he thought they would be. So now, I am trying to figure out a way to incorporate beans into our dinner of avocado chicken pasta....May be I will just wait for tomorrow and look at those lovely green beans on my kitchen   counter for one more day!

My herb garden is coming along

First Cucumber!!!!