Harvest time is approaching

Well we have learned a lot about organic gardening this year for sure.  Even through the battles with the cucumber beetles and weeds that seem to appear overnight it has turned out to be quite the experience. Our squash is starting to look a little sick, hopefully it will decide to kick out a little more before giving up on us.


The spaghetti squash has FINALLY decided to start bearing fruit.  Pictures to come on that one. we have 3 on the vine, after months of battling the mildew that attacks the leaves.

Nothing exciting here just me being goofy, but you can see the corn behind me.

 

Enough of the previews... so we went out last night knowing we had a few green beans that needed picked.  With the sun setting a little earlier everyday we knew we needed to go out and just pick what we had before it got dark.  Weellllll....it got dark before we were done picking beans. But I think we got them all, at least for the first round of harvest.

Combination of our 4 different types of beans. Really not certain on names, but obviously there are the wax beans  which I think are a type of string bean, part of a package of gourmet beans, a green and a purple as well. Which we found doesn't stay purple :( it turns green like the others. Then there are a mess of regular garden beans in there as well.

This angle is deceiving. This JCrew bag is actually pretty full..

Last one for tonight, but if you ever wanted to know what 11 lbs of green beans looks like in your kitchen sink.  Not a bad start to our little organic garden.

 That's all I got for tonight, kinda pootered out after packing and canning all day, I'll update on the canning experience tomorrow.  Maybe I'll find the book I packed on writing skills while I'm at it.