beans
We’ve started shelling the pinto beans we grew in the front-yard garden this summer. They were harvested awhile ago and have been hanging from the ceiling of the porch, getting dry and ready to shell. It’s really cool. It’s surprising how much I like it. These hard, speckled beans, they’re actually beautiful. Being able to grow something that has a lot of protein and makes for delicious meals feels really good to me.
We didn’t plant just a ton of them; it was more of an experiment to find out how it was to grow beans. It worked out really well and we’re planning on growing lots more this next spring.
Tomatoes and peppers are ripening, too, and we’re eating lots of those. Tomatoes from the garden are something else.
We didn’t plant just a ton of them; it was more of an experiment to find out how it was to grow beans. It worked out really well and we’re planning on growing lots more this next spring.
Tomatoes and peppers are ripening, too, and we’re eating lots of those. Tomatoes from the garden are something else.
posted by matt iv at 10:36 AM
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! I love tomatoes. I don't understand why people pick them out of their salads, etc. I could probably eat 30 tomato sandwiches. On toasted bread. Yum, yum, yum!!
Man, now I'm hungry.
That sounds great!
Growing food in my own garden has given me so much more of an appreciation for the food itself..
I hope the beans are good!
Matt!
I am interested in starting my own garden for growing vegetables next season. But since I don't have a backyard, per se, what would you suggest would be the best approach to starting one? Do they make garden kits? I've never really looked into this, I guess, but I figure I would ask the expert. ;)
Well, I'm definitely no expert on gardening. Sometimes I'm amazed that edible things come out of our garden. That's in a large part due to the other person involved in the garden, who has a lot more experience than I do.
But it also has something to do with how awesome gardening is--put seeds in the ground and give them some attention (at least this is good for some, some don't even need much of that) and, viola, there's food! That's an intentional over-simplification--there are all sorts of things that come up while gardening and gardening is definitely related to the social/economic class system, in that access to certain resources is needed (like land, cash, time, information, and other things)--but the oversimplification was important in my own first attempts at gardening. Get some seeds and give it a try.
But if you don't have access to any land space for a garden, it's more difficult. Some places have already established community gardens, which you could try finding and joining. With enough effort and shared interest, creating a community garden could be an option. Some folks do a lot of container gardening. Basically, people get big containers (like 25 gallon tubs/pots), fill them with soil and compost and grow plants in them. Smaller containers work well for smaller plants--a lot of people have success with herb container gardens. We've grown herbs in pots, as well as tomatoes. A friend of mine grows lots and lots of tomatoes in big pots and then moves them inside when it gets too cold and is able to get fruit a bit later in the season. One place to get containers for free for that kind of gardening is a nursery. The nursery I've worked at in the past usually has an over-abundance of pots and likes to get rid of the excess. Sometimes they end up in the trash. If you're going to try container gardening, check out some places like that for free containers.
You said you don't have access to a back yard--how about a front yard? That's actually where our garden is. It works really well and I think makes a lot more sense than a front yard of grass.
That's a few suggestions. I'd be super happy to talk more about it on the phone or over email, if you'd want to.
I'd like to assert that this post needs more exclamation points. Garden food is exciting! As are beans in general.
i agree!
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