Beans, Beans Good For Your Heart

You have never had green beans until you have grown them yourself and eaten them within the hour of harvesting them. As my Dad’s cleaning lady Bertha used to say, “I’m tellin’ you.” Those green beans are like candy. Even the most veggie hating eight year old would clamor to eat one of these beauties.

Growning green beans is incredibly easy. You buy dried beans and poke a hole one inch deep in the soil. Place the bean in the hole and cover it up. Water. Wait six weeks and you have beans.

I am growning bush beans, as opposed to pole beans. Bush beans are sweet and tender, but the plant produces all the beans it is going to all at once. You so harvest and then when you are sure no more beans are coming you pull the plant out and start again. I planted five rows of six plants. I planted one row a week so that I will have a succession of beans, rather than getting a ton all at once.

I am happy I did it that way so we can have fresh beans every three days until we go to Maine. I am not sure I can eat store bought beans, or even farmers market beans again.