Monday 4 July 2011

First harvest of the summer

I just cut my first batch beans from the garden. They were the first plants to give fruit and mature this season. I only have tree stalks growing along with the pumpkins, but I must say, they have performed admirably. Since the start, they grew like crazy, and they only stopped after the plants were loaded with bean pods.

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First harvest of summer, beans


I was a bit worried for them at the beginning because I wasn't sure if they will give any fruit. I got the seeds from a batch of beans I bought to cook and I didn't know if they were viable to be planted. Also, last year when I tried to grow them I ended up with a planter with three very dry stalks of beans and no crops at all, they didn’t even put out any flowers. Lucky me, this year I was able to keep them alive and they succeeded giving a lot of flowers and a lot of bean pods.

I like growing beans because they remind me of back when I was a kid when I used to grow them in Mexico city with my dad. They are very easy to take care, give a nice harvest very soon and help many plants they grow along with. Beans are just a great plant to have in a balcony garden.

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There is still plenty more beans to harvest


The fresh cut harvest already passed by the frying pan and into my plate, and I must say, they tasted amazing. I really recommend to everybody to grow their own vegetables, the flavor of homegrown food is much better than most of the store bought vegetables.

I think the next crops to be ready for picking will be the tomatoes and the strawberries. I will keep posted.

13 comments:

  1. They seem very early in relation to the strawberries. Do you know what kind they are? Must be very satisfying to manage to grow real food in a small space.

    Lucy

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  2. There is nothing as delicious as that first flush of Summer's beans!

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  3. That's good harvest of beans! Hope you will have many tomatoes and strawberries to harvest!

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  4. We had our first broccoli the other night; if your beans were that tasty, wow. Well worth the wait and the effort. Your little garden is quite amazing, fer.

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  5. True that home grown tastes better especially carrots!

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  6. What a great example of successful gardening in a small space. I agree--there's nothing like harvesting and consuming vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself! Your first photo on this post is making me hungry!

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  7. fer, I couldn't agree with you more that homegrown food just tastes so much better. I eat vegetables from my garden that I wouldn't normally buy in the store simply because the taste is so different.

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  8. I've had one of my peas and a couple of my radishes, and it gave me immense joy, even though that was on a snack-level, rather than as part of an actual meal. Still, the peas should be ready for harvesting next weekend, and the radishes I can't eat quickly enough! Oh, the joy!

    My beans, though, are a bit behind, but they had to be sown fairly late as the last frost lingered on a bit too long this year.

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  9. You are making me excited to harvest our first crop of beans! Nothing better than home grown food!

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  10. Thank you very much! it was very rewarding having them, now just have to wait for everything else.

    Lucy ~ No idea what kind they are, but I think they are on time, is the strawberries that got late.

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  11. Amazing! I harvested a few Green peppers.

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