magic beans!
I harvested my first crop from my garden yesterday -- nine pretty, plump green beans! I washed them, trimmed them, and sauteed them in a little butter with some walnuts and they were wonderful! My little garden is doing pretty well, for its first year. The constant deluge that has persisted since May probably has something to do with it. Here's a couple pictures:
My little garden
In the garden are basil, peppers, chamomile, arugula, broccoli, green beans, 4 regular tomato plants, 1 roma tomato plant, and squash. The border of marigolds is supposed to help keep bugs away. There are also little pinwheels to scare off the groundhog that lives next door under the shed. I've had to stake all of the tomatoes 'cause they're getting ridiculously tall:
Me with the tomatoes
I'm 5'11, so you can kinda see how big the tomato plants are, and that's when I was trying to prop them back to full height after they had fallen in the rain.
My little garden
In the garden are basil, peppers, chamomile, arugula, broccoli, green beans, 4 regular tomato plants, 1 roma tomato plant, and squash. The border of marigolds is supposed to help keep bugs away. There are also little pinwheels to scare off the groundhog that lives next door under the shed. I've had to stake all of the tomatoes 'cause they're getting ridiculously tall:
Me with the tomatoes
I'm 5'11, so you can kinda see how big the tomato plants are, and that's when I was trying to prop them back to full height after they had fallen in the rain.