Bush Beans Are Thriving And Full of Color
My next batch of bush bean plants are ready and full of beans!
This was an experimental patch. I tilled a bit of the land and planted my seeds. I didn't add fresh soil or fertilizer. I watered them for around a week until I saw little plants pot up and then...I forgot about it. I planted the seeds close to a period where we got rain for 10 straight days. I really didn't check my garden much during that time. The hill where I planted the bush beans is steep and I fall easily on it. I avoid it when it rains because it's too slick.
Even after the rains passed I didn't water this patch much. It interestingly thrived all on its own. We had a cool July so a little water went a long way. Even though I've ignored it, this patch has done great. The plants are big and bushy. There are lots of beans.
Beans and Weeds
Since I left this patch to survive mostly on it's own, I didn't tend to any weeds. Right now the beans and weeds are thriving. We tried mowing today but the hill is steep in sections so it's hard to get a push mower up and down.
Flowers first and then the beans come. You can see baby beans growing and lots of flowers. The purple flowers indicate purple colored bean plants. White flowers are for yellow and green beans.
I have two more patches that were planted after this one to stagger when we get beans so we can have a continuous supply for a while. So far, the beans I planted earlier in the season never thrived like the patch shown in this post. I planted from previous patch in fresh, good soil with fertilizer. They didn't flourish like the second patch I planted directly in my hill's dirt. I guess the soil on our land is really good and great for growing plants.
We still have tomatoes, watermelons, and corn growing in the gardens. We should be harvesting up until the first frost.
I am comfortable reading posts about daily work, and good luck in agriculture. Peanut leaves seem to have been eaten by pests. you can get rid of pests with garlic, so it is not toxic to consume.
Thank you for the suggestion. I didn't know that about garlic. I might plant some next year.
Good job. It's nice when food grows on its own with little attention.
Thank you. It is nice to plant and forget, especially in summers with lots of 90 degree days when I want to stay indoors.
Nice!
That's what I need... crops I can plant and forget about. ;)
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Bush beans are perfect for planting and forgetting.
Those purple beans are nice, from a color standpoint. They add a little interest to the plate, don't they?
I wanted to grow those and the steely blue sweet corn this summer. Alas, no garden plot was available.
They really are pretty. That was the reason I picked a mixed packet of seeds. I really like the yellow ones. I might plant only yellow next year. Blue corn sounds so cool. I might try that next year or another attempt at red corn.
If you did yellow and purple, you would have complementary colored beans! :-) Well, it would look interesting on a dinner pate! I wonder if there is a red corn variety of sweet corn that would grow here. We have ornamental corns, but those, apparently, don't taste great.
That would be my type of lazy man gardening: plant and forget about it lol.
It's the best type of gardening. At some point I got tired of running out in the humid hot to water my garden. So glad I could forget a few patches.
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