Dried Beans!

 This morning we decided it was time to harvest

the first bed of dried pinto beans.

They are well and truly dry.

The green you see is grass growing up

in the bed and a couple of stray okra.

The okra didn't amount to much in this bed...

In the bed to the top left there are more

pinto beans and LOTS of okra.

I've been harvesting off the okra for about

a week or so now... every other day or so.

Just enough for breakfast, but SO YUMMY!

We got two buckets of beans.

They were full to the top but I forgot to take

a picture until I had been shelling for awhile.

All done shelling.

One bed yielded 2.3 pounds of beans!

We have 2 more beds of pintos,

I think 2 or 3 beds of navy,

and 2 beds of black eyed peas.

We'll harvest the next bed of pintos on Wed.

And see about the final bed - it's not nearly as dry.

We planted them all on the exact same day...

no idea why they are so different.

But its kind of nice, since we don't have to 

do a marathon harvest.

We can spread it out over a couple of days.

Not a bad haul for one 4'x8' bed!

And I just can't resist a picture of the

sunflowers against a beautifully cloudless blue sky.