Abundance of noodle beans aka long beans

This summer my abundant vegetable has to be my noodle beans aka long beans. Everyday I pick about a dozen of them. When I miss a day I end up with some being a bit too mature. I have a variety of noodle - long beans. Two varieties I got from Bakercreek - red noodle beans and Thai soldier - and one I bought from Home Depot - Yard long bean.

The red noodle beans were introduced to me by Jessica from Roots and Refuge. She recommended it as she said it produces abundantly. Thai soldier long beans I bought because initially it was listed as a bush variety and I had space in my garden last year for a bush variety bean. However, after a month I noticed it started vining next to my tomatoes and peppers. It was uncontrollable about 2 months and grew every where. I had 5 plants last year. This year I planted about 12 and 8-10 are alive, of which 8 are bearing noodle beans.  Thai soldier beans are not as long as noodle beans but not as short as green beans. It’s super delicious. Yesterday I picked this:

I had a friend over and I asked him if he wanted but he declined lol because three days prior he visited us and I picked the same amount and gave him in addition he took home a basket of greens (kale, Swiss chard and Malabar spinach).
Well today this is our harvest

As you can see another handful of noodle beans and a dried one too lol.

The melon you see that is a mystery for us. There dragon eggs cucumber and regular market more cucumbers. A couple okras and peppers.

I will be making some pickles soon. I’ll share my recipe with you when I do!
Thanks for reading!

Garden Haul July 29, 2020

I love gardening but for the last couple of months I took very little care of my garden. More or less watering just to keep them alive, but that didn’t seem to bother them because they kept on growing and producing. Now they could have been more productive if I had spend a lot more time in caring for them, but I didn’t. Of lately my focused has changed as I realized that my garden should have been giving me free therapy... therapy I needed to help curb my anxiety (will explain in another blog post). But here I sit watching my evening harvest and feeling so grateful that my garden did not give up on me and kept producing.