Summer Glut Bounty
Meet today’s pick of cucumbers. Yes, we did indeed harvest eight of them today. To go with the six and half still in the fridge. And many more still expanding on the plant. Want any?!
I’m pretty sure I’ve never been glad that a plant died before, but I’m now pretty relieved that the second cucumnber plant bit the dust early on.
And earlier this week I harvested an abundance of more green things…
Yup, a big pile of beans! The photo doesn’t really do them justice. I went out with what I thought was a pretty reasonable size bowl to grab them, but I had to do two and bit trips in the end. And with no need to eat that many beans this week I even got keen and blanched and froze a few bag-fulls for later. Now I just have to remember they’re in the freezer…
Unfortunately I think I left picking them a bit late. The bean plants (vines?) have now stopped flowering. I suspect that’s it. They might well have to be dragged out in the very near future to try to get one more crop of something in before it’s all over for the summer cropping.