Here’s your early September garden update:

Crazy heirloom tomatoes from early August

The peppers are still going strong  but the cucumbers are dead and the tomatoes nearly so.  The beans are almost finished and the basil is still growing.  Swiss chard is still our best friend and the yellow squash is amazingly still giving us beautiful yellow fruit.

Swiss chard – about 2 weeks of growth (from 30 plants).

This year, we grew yellow wax beans and a variety of purple bean that turns green when you cook it.  Both are bush beans but I think next year, we’re going to grow pole beans in an attempt to get more beans out of a small plot.

I don’t even really like green beans unless combined with feta and roasted pecans or made Asian style  with lots of fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, and ginger.  We grow them though because beans (and all legumes) are great for putting nitrogen back into the soil and so are essential to a complete crop rotation.  That pile above went into the freezer this morning to save for the winter when we’re hungry for something green!