Jun
24
I like to grow different colored vegetables in my garden. It brings variety and excitement to the space. So along with some traditional green colored beans, I am also growing some purple beans – Velour French Filet beans. The purple color however will disappear when cooked, but they will look pretty in pictures next to …
Jun
24
In the gardening world you have to have the attitude of if you don’t succeed try again. Last year, the animals keep me from enjoying any French filet beans. This year I have changed my strategy and the seeds were planted in an area where animals are rarely an issue. I choose to try these …
Jan
04
There is nothing I like better fresh out of the garden than beans. The tenderness and flavor cannot match what you get in the grocery store. In my search for the perfect beans there is one thing I always rule out, growing meaty beans. That is beans that tend to grow large seeds rather quickly. …
Jul
22
Question: What eats bush bean plants? Answer: I know Japanese beetles like to eat bean leaves. They ate my mom’s pole bean leaves into nothing last year. If they eat the pole bean leaves, I imagine they will do the same with bush beans. Traps do not work on them as it just attracts them …
Jul
10
Click here to read all my posts on blue lake bush beans. The number of buds on my blue lake beans continues to grow. No actual flowers opening yet, but as you can from the above pictures, it’s close. If you are growing this type of beans, you can expect buds and flowers to show …
Jul
10
Click here to read all my posts on blue lake bush beans. Above is a picture of my blue lake bush beans after 4 weeks in the ground. Their growth has been good up to this point. I started to see the first buds appearing on some of the plants (click the photo on the …
Jul
10
Question: Are blue lake green beans good for freezing? Answer: Absolutely! I have heard they are one of the best beans for freezing. I haven’t done it myself before, because I never grown enough beans where I couldn’t eat them all fresh (hopefully this year will change that!). I would recommend blanching them before freezing. …
Jun
15
Click here to read all my posts regarding this variety of bush bean. Two weeks into growing my Beuree de Roquencourt Wax Bush beans (thank goodness for copy & paste) they are looking good. The package says to thin the plants out to 6-10 inches. The other bush beans I am growing said to thin …
Jun
14
Click here to read all my posts on Royal Burgundy Bush Beans. It’s been two weeks since my royal burgundy bush beans were planted and they are looking good so far. I noticed that the stems of the plants have a purple hue to them, which helps me tell them apart at this point from …
Jun
14
It took about 5-6 days for my blue lake bush beans to make their appearance out of the ground. At the 2 week point they were leaves a plenty. Once the plants have 4 leaves on them, it is time to thin them out. Thin to 1 plant every 4 inches, so that each plant …
Welcome to my blog! My name is Eric. I live in Saline, Michigan with my wife (Donna) and two daughters, Hannah (3 1/2) and Autumn (1). I started this blog in October 2009 to share my culinary experiences from making my own food from scratch to what I find at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
