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| August-Planted Beans. 9.13.15 |
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| Chinese Chive Seedlings, One Year. 9.13.15 |
Random observations around the yard.
I don't know if the
beans that I planted in August will reach bearing before first. It's worth a try and doesn't hurt anything. If the frost kills them, the plants will be turned into the soil and improve
tilth and
soil nutrition.
The
Chinese chives that I planted from seeds last fall, made nice little plant bunches. No where near the harvest or bloom stage. Probably next year. These were planted on the surface in a planter box, left outside over winter, then kept sheltered this year. Taking them out of the planter was like removing a cake from a cake pan. Then I sliced the seedling bunches into 8 "pieces of cake" and planted in the bee forage bed, last week. I imagine they will bulk up and bloom next year.
I'm leaving the
sweet corn stalks in place to
improve soil. I cut the tops off and chipped into pieces a few inches long, then left them at the soil surface. The buckwheat seedlings have grown around them. This is less like "Three Sisters" garden than "
Two Sisters and a Friend" since I didn't include beans but have added buckwheat.
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| Corn Stalks, Buckwheat, Squashes. 9.13.15 |
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| Pink Banana Squash. 9.13.15 |
Itching to harvest pink banana squash. This one grew really big. Not quite ready - stem isn't dry yet.
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| Chinese Beans - seed saving. 9.13.15 |
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| Meyer Lemon. 9.13.15 |
Ning's beans didn't do so well A few have tiny beans. I don't know if those will make it to harvest before first frost, either. These two are the only ones that made it to seed-saving stage. If they grow, that will be 5 plants next year. If those produce 5 pods of 5 seeds each, that will give 25 the following year, and then we are in business. A genetic bottleneck but with beans that should be OK.
It's possible some of the old packets of Chinese bean seeds are still viable. Getting to the end of those. See next year what happens.
Meyer lemon looks good. Should be more lemons than I need. They are expected to ripen next year.
