The beans are done now. After the enormous picking last week, nothing much was left. We pulled up some of the plants this afternoon. I stopped pulling up plants when I pulled out one that still had some baby beans on it. Next year, we need to follow the excellent lead of our co-plotters and put in some proper bean infrastructure. There are a number of very nice bean screens around.
We also pulled up a whole potato plant. It had been knocked over by the zukes, beans, and incessant rains. There were about a dozen potatoes underneath. After our first taste the other night, I can't wait to eat these. Nothing is like a fresh potato. We really don't get them in any way other than eating them, either. It's unfair; why can't we get such delicious beasts at the farmers' market? We can get nice peas. Why not nice potatoes?
Our haul included some (increasingly mis-named) spring onions and some herbs from the communal garden. I brought home some egyptian walking onion babies to plant in the backyard.
I think next year we'll get rid of the walking onions. I like using the space we have for things we can eat.
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