Hyacinth Bean Vine growing on the fence
Bloom detail
Seed pods forming
The vines will be good until the first frost and then that will be the end of them :-(
Posted on 09/28/2012 10:17:11 AM PDT by greeneyes
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I picked up some leaves that had blown into a corner and there were several earthworms in the pile. I put them into the garden. I guess the rain brought them back close to the surface.
Bloom detail
Seed pods forming
The vines will be good until the first frost and then that will be the end of them :-(
Also, what do you use to fertilize the banana plants in your picture upthread?
We had a welcome respite from the heat in the form of about 3" of rain last night in the Hill Country. Today's temps are in the lower 80's and humid. It'll be time to gas up the mower and mow again. All this rain causes the grass to grow.
Those are beautiful! Do they produce edible beans too boot?
There are mixed opinions on whether edible or not. Mostly I’ve seen you can eat them if you cook the beans well - here’s another take on it:
“Practically all parts of the plant are edible, although the seeds are slightly toxic and need to be cooked well in two washes of water before they should be considered edible.”
http://www.easybloom.com/plantlibrary/plant/ornamental-hyacinth-bean-vine-1
The hydroponics is not a closed system, so I don’t have to do any testing. I have about a 30 gallon reservoir that I fill about once a week from my rain water capture. Nutrients I keep pre-mixed in two 5 gallon buckets. I add about 3 cups of each of the nutrients when I fill the reservoir.
I’m playing with aquaponics in an aquarium, but I need more fish. The ammonia levels have never gotten high enough to measure.
The bananas just get like a 10-10-10 once a month. I have no idea what they actually need. Oh, and a good bit of compost.
Interesting. Some people of Mediterranean decent have to be careful with Fava Beans and must follow the same regimen when cooking them...
Great info. Thank you!
Well, No she doesn’t, but it seems to me it has been longer than usual this time, but it is also harvest time in many ways - so I don’t know what to think.
Sounds yummy.
Great Pics. Thanks for sharing. Sorry for delay in responding. Had to leave Friday afternoon for a weekend trip out of town with no computer.
We have also pulled out all the old strawberry plants, and are refreshing the soil. Not sure what to plant yet.
Guess I won’t plant much garlic this year. I ordered plants late spring for fall delivery. They sent postcards every month since stating that they would be shipped this fall.
This month we got a card that said out of stock credit will be issued. I’ll try some other source, but not too hopeful of finding stock.
That’s good news. We’ll have to keep checking. So far we aren’t finding any, but I’ll bet now that it’s cooler and moister, we will find some.
I have Iraquois melons growing like crazy, but it will be a race to beat the frost. I have a few bush beans to pick, and the fall lettuce to harvest.
Going to plant some lettuce and spinach in pots. It will soon be time to chop of all the tomato limbs, strip off some leaves, and stick them in a big pot of soil to bring indoors.
Did this last year, and most of them rooted - the green tomatoes ripened, and I hand pollinated the flowers and got quite a few new tomatoes grown indoors.
These are Pacific Coast Blacktail and a large one might go 150 pounds but most are less then 120. They will not jump a 6 foot fence unless being chased by dogs.
I’m praying big-time. This is probably a tempest in a teapot but I can’t help being a worry-wart. Prayers don’t hurt anything. I really hope that she and her family are fine.
On my part time job as a park ranger, I saw earth worms crawling across a concrete parking lot. Not just one or two, but 15 or 20 heading to drier dirt.
I am very concerned also. Her posts just abruptly stopped coming anywhere on FR.
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