Growing Green Bean Snakes

Good morning. I feel as if I have not blogged in ages. Mr Ladybug had been off work for 10 days and we went on a little adventure through Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and I am sure some state that I forgot. We camped out, ate food that we brought with us and cooked on the camp stove with the few exceptions of snagging some cheese curds in Wisconsin and a very rainy morning which had us eating at a fast food place. We did do  lunch at a really adorable winery. I never got tired of looking at the big open blue sky and clouds that I felt I could almost touch. One morning I commented on how low some clouds were and Mr Ladybug debated on whether or not to show me they were coming from some sort of factory on the opposite side of the road where I wasnt looking. He also stopped pointing out roadkill because I kept insisting on them actually being animals in deep sleep because they were so tired and thinking about dead animals on vacation isnt fun. Seriously whats wrong with him?

I was so happy to finally see green beans ready to be picked or so I thought. Normally we grow beans in a row but decided to try some around a circular cage that we put around tomatoes. Here we are sticking our hands in all the mess of the vines and something slithers across my hand. It was a snake. It was actually a pretty smart thing for the snake to do and it was keeping the bugs that normally eat up my leaves down to a minimum but it freaked me out a little bit, I had gotten use to when growing the beans in the long rows to making lots of noise to scare them off so not to have them slither across my bare feet. I will make a point to make more noise at the new way of growing as well or just wear garden gloves.

The lettuce growing in the gutters is doing really well and having the bucket drip method is really working too. I am going to add more of these in the fall or next spring if the lettuce keep growing like this I think it would work great for lot of herbs as well.

The cow peas aka black eyed peas have come up. We are hoping they are something we enjoy eating since they are the perfect thing to grow in the hot summer heat when the peas dont do very well.

I hope you are having a great Monday. There is so much going on in the garden and so much stuff to get done so no foods go to waste. I love this busy time of year and eating what we grow later when snow is on the ground.