Strings For Beans

Strings For The Beans

The Sugar Snap and Oregon Giant peas are done for the season and proved to be prolific producers again this year.

So now it's time for the green beans to start climbing their way up the strings Cindy has put in place for them in the long raised bed, and soon we'll have new green beans.  

The squash are already setting on, and a few tomatoes have started to form, although none of them have ripened yet. 

Since we're now producing most of our own produce, we don't buy much of it at the grocery store any more, which means we either have to eat up the frozen or canned produce from the year before, or wait for the new crop to arrive.  

So it's "Oh, goody, green beans!"  Then it becomes, "Green beans, again?"  And finally, "What the heck are we going to do with all these beans (or zucchini, or peas, or tomatoes)?"

It's like the old joke about the Englishman touring in America who asked a farmer what they did with all their produce.  The farmer said, "Well, we eat what we can, and can what we can't."  The Englishman thought this was pretty funny, so he went back to Britain and told his friends, "The Americans eat whatever they are able, and what they cannot, they put into tins."