the harvest of spring

Summer just got here, may be yesterday for real. I am pretty good with heat but when it hits 100 F, I will feel it. Just before it gets too hot in Texas for green beans and tomatoes to survive in the city, I thought I will share with you what we have harvested from our garden. These green beans are growing on our front yard fence. It is so showy to passer bys and I am so proud of my husband for taking care of them. Last year, I grew some bush beans because they take shorter time, about 45 days versus 60 days.I was told though that the pole beans taste better. This year, we have both in because I really want to harvest early but then I also want to see if the pole beans are really better.

One thing I can definitely tell is that the pole beans are easier to harvest. I always missed a bean or two when harvesting bush beans. Since we have our brand new front yard fence that we put in last summer, I thought we could give it a try. I'm not sure if it's the varieties that I got, but my pole beans taste super delicious, sweeter than the bush beans and I don't have to kneel down to harvest them. I'm all about pole beans next year.





The recipe for Som Tam is in the previous post. My son loves to eat vegetables now that he can pick them off the vines from the garden. So, if you have trouble encouraging your kids to eat veggies, grow some. They will love watering, weeding, picking, and of course eating. We grow a lot of green beans, tomatoes and peppers this year and there is no better way to use them all but in this very recipe. I hope you enjoy your garden.