First bean harvest

My first bean harvest of 2011. Not too bad for the first year at an apartment. I may have picked them too soon. Harvesting is the funest part of gardening. I got harvest happy. Although, I do like my green beans and other greens on the younger, more tender side.

I wanted to weigh them but I keep forgetting to buy a food scale. Know of any good ones?

Pretty Butterfly

Look what I found fluttering around my beans yesterday, but a lonely butterfly, or is it a pretty moth?! I don't like moths much after finding a bunch of holes in my sweaters, but if this was a moth...there were no moths harmed in the photography of this insect.

Beans beans they're good for your heart

The green beans are starting to get bigger and should be ready to pick in a few days. They look so cool. I think I could have planted them earlier for a longer harvesting period.

You can see the twine and wire I had prepared for the beans. I planted them in the wrong spot...in the center of the patch of dirt in my patio. What was I thinking?! I thought these were going to be pole beans, but they are the bush type beans. I was real lucky this time.