A Larrapin Garden

A Bean Harvest! (14 pound Weenie Dog for scale...)

Today’s a quick and random post! I love my new giant red trug and I love all the beans I picked yesterday! This year we grew Kentucky Wonder Bush Beans and wow are they productive and delicious. We’d been Blue Lake Bush Bean fans for years, but Kentucky may have won out at Larrapin. This harvest was half of a 3 x 20 foot patch…which also has a row of sweet corn down the middle.  still looking fairly puny though…so I’m not sure what I think about that planting method after all. I’ll need to try it with another variety of corn and see if I just picked the wrong horse, er, corn, for this race.

The new garden spot continues to grow rampantly. Everything looked pretty parched in this shot, but it was just before a wonderful drenching rain soaked it all. It will be jungle-ish very soon!  (The purple-rake garden art is a work in progress…please stay tuned..)

Pumpking Seedlings on 6/21

I’d been unable to find pumpkin seedlings at any of my usual gardenstore haunts, so started these from seed. They popped up quick! I’m using a little wooded gadget that makes starter pots from old newspaper. I didn’t like it at first because the cups were so tiny, then I realized you can use wider paper strips to make nice deep cups. Now I love it.

And the pumpkins seem to love it too. These are the same seedlings six days later. The photo is washed out, they actually look very sturdy and green.  I’m preparing a bed for these now and planning a pumpkin/compost pile planting experiment…

In closing this ragged and random post, picture below is the little-known weenie dog weather detector. When Blue—who hates wet grass, being awakened early, late meals or weather below 85 degrees anywhere in his Princedom— stands nervously scanning the sky from the vantage point pictured below…it’s gonna rain. And it did!

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