I have beans and peas!

I’m back again with another update. Most exciting in my garden currently is the arrival of the pods:

Bean and pea pods that is. Overall things are coming along in the garden. Nothing too traumatic to report.

In case there are any other Mississippi Gardeners out there, I want to recommend the Mississippi Fruit and Vegetable Book. It was a great read filled with useful information and suggestions. I found it very useful as a beginning gardener.

	Less overwhelming I posted some other kinds of skinks a few weeks ago but I haven’t seen them lately. Now I’m seeing the blue tailed guys.
	Tiny My beans and peas have really taken off this week.
	Pods My bean box is filled with little pods.
	yum And some not so little.
	harvest I guess I better figure out when and how to harvest them. It looks like I’ll have a nice turn out.
	outline I like how you can see the outline of the peas in that pod.
	castor My husband is growing castor for his research project. We have several plants at the house. I think their seed pods are very interesting though we don’t keep them around for too long in case some random kid shows up and decides to eat it like candy.
	Definitely Banana Peppers I posted a few weeks ago not sure exactly what kind of peppers I was growing and after my first harvest from last week, they are definitely sweet banana peppers.
	Cantaloupe My cantaloupes are doing well. This one has leaves that are bigger than my hands.
	Fortress My crazy rabbit proof fortress is still holding up to be rabbit proof! I’ve got cucumber and various squashes flowering right now.
	Off with his head This is the headless remains of one of the fake snakes I have in the Fortress to scare off bunnies. Apparently something thought it was real and tried to eat it. I found it about 8 feet away from where it was and headless. We’re thinking it was probably a hawk.
	Hanging in there Something, probably a squirrel took the top off of one of my ichiban eggplants this week. It had to be the one that had a flower just about to open. The plant is still alive so maybe it will come back.