After surgery 2 years ago this month, a drought and infestation of grasshoppers last year, a revamping of the raised beds, including hail guards, shade cloth and high pressure water hydrants, the JAZ Farm gardens are performing like they have always been expected to. We adapted and overcame just like farmers have to. So far we have only had to contend with “normal” gardening annoyances like tomato horn worms (hack, gag, puke!), some grasshopper issues in our cabbages, and – something I never thought I’d say- too much water! The whole garden is exploding! Weeds included. We are going to be manufacturing rope out of the bind weed and see if we can’t find a market for it! LOL. The baskets shown here are from just one of our bush bean beds. There is one more ready to be harvested this afternoon so we will be at close to 3 bushels. We have 2 more that will be ready around the beginning of September. I guess I’ll be canning tomorrow. We should be all set on green beans for the coming winter. Once we pull the bean plants, there will be Cauliflower, more Cabbage, Broccoli and fall onions waiting in the wings. It’s nice to be back on track. Maybe a bit more hobbled, but the main gardening implements – the people – are alive and kicking and back in the saddle. We were left unsupervised and a garden broke out!
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The pole beans are one of the most productive vegetables for us. When I lived in town. I grew them on the fences. (I hate fences, and we had big ones all the way around the back. People who hate their neighbors that much should not live where there are more than a million neighbors.) The problem with that technique, that you have already guessed, is that they really are not happy where beans grew during the previous year. Sometimes, I thought that they might not notice if I gave them enough goodies to keep them distracted, but they figured it out.