Surprise harvest
Sep 17th, 2007 by Julie Kirkwood
I was picking tomatoes and hot peppers yesterday when I noticed a few green beans dangling from their bushes. I had to big harvests of green beans this summer, and I assumed the plants were done.
I decided to pick these few green beans so they wouldn’t go to waste. Once I started pushing leaves aside, I realized I was going to need a bigger container than my pockets. I took off my sweatshirt and used it as a sack.
Here’s what I ended up with:
That’s a full freezer bag of green beans — just as big as the earlier harvests. One of the plants even had blossoms on it. I had no idea the green beans would last this long.
What a pleasant surprise. I’m definitely putting those seeds on the list of things to plant next year.
