Fordhook lima beans are hard to find in the produce department...in fact, I haven't seen them there for years...and, we LOVE fresh limas! I had never heard of vine limas, but found them in the Burpee catalog! As soon as the peas stop bearing, the vining limas will take their place. I decided to plant bush limas between the corn. They are a legume, aren't they? They should give the corn some nitrogen, I hope the Three Sisters won't care...( To help them along, I'm mixing some chicken manure into the soil).
Along with the seeds came an interesting brochure about container vegetable gardening. If the system works, it would make vegetable gardening available to everyone...even those with limited space! It would certainly be worth a try, I think!
Yesterday was a real farm lady day for me! Harvested carrots, broccoli,lettuce ( bolted ), cleaned out planters, pulled weeds, turned earth and added new organic soil, readied beds for new summer vegetables. Picked peas. Sliced , blanched (2 min.then quickly into ice water) carrots, froze them. Blanched peas and broccoli (1 min.), also for the freezer. Started new seed flats of melons, vining limas and then took a nap! My great garden assistant was busy, too. He installed drip irrigation alongside each corn plant. When done, he needed a nap, too!
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