Peas & Beans: Progress Report
May 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Posted in Uncategorized
Our row of pea plants has come up lush and strong with many pods that are just beginning to swell. Capturing the image with a camera is not so easy. Perhaps you can make out one of the pods just to the left of center.
The fava beans made a dense patch of tall and incredibly architectural foliage. This being our first year planting favas, I had no idea. They produce many clusters of white flowers shaped almost like butterflies with their wings folded. To enhance the effect, each flower has a big black spot on it, like an eyeball.
The cranberry beans seam to be happy, even though spring in the District of Columbia this year has been cooler and wetter than usual. These are planted in the aborted spinach bed. We don’t let our vegetable beds sit vacant for long, just add some more compost and away we go with the next crop.
Interesting to see so many beans being grown Ed! We are doing a bit of a ‘garden in a bucket’ experiment and so far so good.
Cheers
David