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Beans!

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This year we planted dragon tongue beans, pinto beans, and top-pick crowder peas. The seed packet for the dragon tongue beans said they could be picked early (green) and the shells are similar to a green bean or left to dry and pick after the bean is fully mature similar to the pinto bean. We opted to let them mature and dry and pick them like pintos.

This is what we got. It is just about enough for one good mess of beans. I am grateful as we did not even know if we would get any harvest. The shells have purplish striping. Some shells are darker than others. We were curious to see how they taste.

Dragon Tongue Beans

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Off to a Good Start…Mostly

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Our first garden seems to be off to a good start. The corn is a little sparse and our carrots and onions were planted too late, but the beans, lettuce, and zucchini are looking good. We’re still not sure about the broccoli. It may have been planted too late as well.

Those 3 little flower pots in the corner are where we planted our pepper seeds. Yeah, I see why our oldest shook his head and all but laughed at us. They started to grow just a little (very little), but they have all mostly disappeared. I think bugs ate them or something.

You can see how all the grass is trying to grow back up through the garden as we didn’t get it tilled good enough, but all in all we may actually have some sort of crop from this!

Running the Well Dry

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When we arrived home from our weekend trip to Chimney Rock, NC you know the first thing I do is head straight to the bathroom. It is only a few hours drive, but still my bladder can barely hold…LOL! But when I go to wash my hands there is no water. Oh my!

Then of course I realize that the toilet has flushed, but it is not refilling. Of course I go check the kitchen sink and yup….no water there either. So, I tell Jon, and we start checking the breaker box. All good there. Then it dawns on us! We asked our son to water the garden in our absence.

So, we go check the outside water spigot and sure enough it is still on. I quickly turn off the breaker to the water pump so the motor doesn’t burn up (if it hasn’t already).
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What To Plant?

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So, now we’ve just tilled up the yard…..so what to plant?!? We were already starting pretty late on this whole garden thing so we needed to get on the ball and buy some seeds and get planting. We bought various seeds from Tractor Supply, Walmart, Lowes, and Dollar General.

We were out in town and thought we’d run by Lowes and Walmart and pick up some seeds. These were not our usual store locations, but we were already there and they were more convenient at the time. Let me tell you don’t even bother going to a Lowes or Walmart in a city. Their selection is pitiful! We had much better luck going to our usual rural Lowes and Walmart.

Man, everywhere had tons of different types of green beans. We thought we wouldn’t do green beans because both of our Mama’s always keep us generously supplied with canned green beans. So, we were thinking maybe some other kinds of beans. I thought maybe we should try some October beans. I knew from growing up they are about the same thing as pintos, but is what most people around here always had. At least that’s how I recalled it…lol. Well, we couldn’t find October beans or pinto beans anywhere. We found some dragon tongue beans that look similar to a pinto but with some purplish stripes. We were curious so bought them.
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