Whoa, first sign of pea development? I'd expect your peas would have been done a month ago.

[bragging] our sugar snaps are over six feet, and the snow peas have just about reached escape velocity.[/bragging]

The beans and peas are in week 6 or so.

It's the other way 'round Farmer Toad.
Thank YOU....for putting up with US.
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J noticed that there are a 2-3 ready pea pods this morning, so by this time next week...

I froze about 4 or 5 pounds of turnip greens and beet greens last night.

God help me (or my wife) when the peas are ready for freezing. The first planting was 40 feet. Both sides of a 20' trellis.

More beans at http://www.flickr.com/photos/busterb. I didn't pick for 2 or 3 days, while messing w/new AC and roof. Boy they liked to got ahead of me.

3 FT. old folks rumor has it as beet greens are like nightshade, bad news. I know of no one in my part of south who plants beets. Me I like them. But they smell just like new plowed ground. Thanks Army for feeding me them. Not the rest of crap. hahahaha Canned beets, onions and dago dressing, great

Buster, as a carpenter I once worked with liked to say: "ya gotta die of something it might as well be..." you fill in the blank.

For me, steamed beet greens with a humongous pile of butter is just damn fine. :love: As for night shades, the only thing I love more than beet greens is 'taters and spinach with a bunch of olive oil or butter.

My wife tries to give me the old "spinach has too much oxalic acid" crap, and I just give her the raised eyebrow look.

I know the beets, onion dago dressing thing. I like it, but sometimes people slip in the green beans. I like those steamed with butter/garlic alone next to chicken.

Harvested a salad spinner full of snow peas today. gonna remove the strings and freeze them.

I was big on canning last year, but we got this freezer (lowes, haha) and although I was born in Georgia, I like my greens green, not BDU green.

I like Spinach also, but doesn’t do well here, too hot? I do my beans and new taters in pressure cooker. Taters first, about 4 minutes depending on size. Then take them out, put beans in and taters on top for around another 3 minutes. Of course w/a big teaspoon of bacon grease, S&P.

Buster you could probably grow spinach in the winter. It germinates at 40º readily. Up here by now, it is way too late for spinach. I let a couple of plants go to seed, just to see what they looked like, the seed is nearly ripe by now. I'm told the plants will survive 30º nights. I may try a fall planting.

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I thought they were just kidding when they said that if you let a zucc go it will grow as big as a bat. This one is as big as my forearm.

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I thought they were kidding when they said there would be too much!

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First corn husk. The corn is as high as my eye on the 6th of July.

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Big ol beans coming along.

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Green beans ready. I wish they were purple so we could find them all.

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Peas ready. The first harvest yielded about 100 of them, which is not enough to fill a small bowl. The next one will fill that bowl. But I hope we get more, because they're great.

I can see I'm going to have to come down for a visit soon to enjoy some of that produce!

In a small spot only plant determinate plants, as the indeterminate plant will grow out of any cages you put around them, they will grow over a 4 ft. cage and fall over. This pertains to tomatoes. This photo is what I'm talking about. If we get wind from Dennis, will wreck them. The red ribbon is top of cage.

I sure hope you planted some peppers to go with them 'maters, Buster. Is there some salsa in your future?

Yep about ten hills.