My soil is getting a little tired after 3 years of constant gardening. I decided to rest one side of my garden this season and will be resting the other half in the spring. I planted a few cabbages, greens, and broccoli, but since they take up so much room, I planted a lot less of those than I have the last 2 years. Between sales on seeds and the seed of the month club I joined, I had a ton of bean seeds. This fall, we planted empress beans, pencil pod wax beans, royalty purple pod beans, and dragon tongue beans. After getting off to a rough start with some really warm weather, followed by a ton of rain, then bugs, the beans are doing quite well. I had to apply neem a few times to get rid of the bugs, but they seem to have moved onto other plants. This year, I will finally have beans ready to be harvested on Thanksgiving! Since growing the beans has been a family affair this year, we're all pretty excited about the bean harvest.
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| Empress and Royalty Purple Pod Beans in my small garden |
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| Royalty Purple Pod Beans (they turn green when cooked) |
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| Empress Beans |
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| Our first harvest |
My son has an Earthbox. He is growing 8 pencil pod wax bean plants and 8 dragon tongue bean plants. The dragon tongue beans are pole beans, so we added a few stakes to the center of the box. We've harvested a few pencil pod wax beans. The dragon tongue beans can be harvested as a snap bean or dry bean. We've decided to be patient and let them turn into dry beans.
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My son's Earthbox with 16 bean plants.
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| Pencil pod wax beans. |
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Dragon tongue beans
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