Sick of gardening posts yet? Sorry about it, I’m a bit brain dead right now as we catch up with the garden and I immerse myself in my new job (day 4 tomorrow).

That photo above? That’s just shy of 4 pounds of bush beans. And I’d say it’s about 20% of what we’re going to eventually harvest. Maybe more like 25%. But still, there’s a lot more to come.

Right now we’re eating as many as we can with the peas and collecting the rest in the fridge. Saturday they’ll all get blanched and put in the freezer. That cycle will continue until I’ve frozen as many as we need, then I’ll pickle the rest.

Of the three types that I planted, I’d say that the two green ones are about equal for productivity. The purple ones are a gorgeous shade of aubergine, but they’re not nearly as productive as the green. That said we’ll likely plant them again next year just because they’re so pretty.

Good thing the pole beans are still working on blooming. Otherwise we’d really be buried in beans. I’ll get a complete garden update, complete with photos, up this weekend. First I’ve got to get some weeding done so you don’t know how bad it is out there.

And be sure to check in tomorrow night for photos of the 55 peepers that should be arriving in the afternoon…