Zeedman
Garden Master
Picking a lot of green beans, yardlong beans, cucumbers, okra, and bitter melon. The garden has become a jungle, with barely room to move. Which is just the way I like it... deer can (and do) nibble anything which grows through the fence, but there is nowhere open enough for them to jump in.
"WI 5207" cucumbers & "Joy" luffa. This is the first time the cukes have ever reached the top of their 6' trellis. I expected the luffa to overrun them where they meet halfway down the row, but the cukes have dominated.
One of the bean tunnels: "Bird Egg #3", "Gigandes" runner, and "Emerite" snap beans (right); "Madagascar" limas and "Long White" bitter melon (left).
The "Grandma Gina" pole beans (from @heirloomgal ) are monsters; I had thought the heat from the pole building might be too much for them, but they are actually shading the building. Lots of pods, but with only 4-5 weeks left before our average frost, dry seed is a gamble at this point. "Galante" yardlongs at the end of the row flowered later, but will likely ripen first.
Nothing little about "Little Greenseed" pumpkins this year, I have to cut off leaves & some vines to get in for the pollinations... and they are spreading into the yardlong trellis, and through the fence. On the far end, the "suddenly pole" bean "Uzice" is overrunning the row of chard next to it.
All members of the gourd family have made up for the late start. Soybeans have mostly caught up. All beans have pods & will likely get at least some dry seeds, but a few (such as "Blue Marbutt") only began flowering recently. But I picked the first dry seed yesterday; two pods of "Takara Early" adzuki beans.
"WI 5207" cucumbers & "Joy" luffa. This is the first time the cukes have ever reached the top of their 6' trellis. I expected the luffa to overrun them where they meet halfway down the row, but the cukes have dominated.
One of the bean tunnels: "Bird Egg #3", "Gigandes" runner, and "Emerite" snap beans (right); "Madagascar" limas and "Long White" bitter melon (left).
The "Grandma Gina" pole beans (from @heirloomgal ) are monsters; I had thought the heat from the pole building might be too much for them, but they are actually shading the building. Lots of pods, but with only 4-5 weeks left before our average frost, dry seed is a gamble at this point. "Galante" yardlongs at the end of the row flowered later, but will likely ripen first.
Nothing little about "Little Greenseed" pumpkins this year, I have to cut off leaves & some vines to get in for the pollinations... and they are spreading into the yardlong trellis, and through the fence. On the far end, the "suddenly pole" bean "Uzice" is overrunning the row of chard next to it.
All members of the gourd family have made up for the late start. Soybeans have mostly caught up. All beans have pods & will likely get at least some dry seeds, but a few (such as "Blue Marbutt") only began flowering recently. But I picked the first dry seed yesterday; two pods of "Takara Early" adzuki beans.
mine are normally just a few mm across and maybe if i'm lucky a few will reach 4mm.
This is the 2nd time I've left the gate open, the last time was over-night. To judge by the occasional rustling today (and some damage too high for a mouse) I think a rabbit has taken up residence there & is quite happy in my green pantry. I need to borrow someone's cat, to serve an eviction notice. 
Steve
