I have never felt the anticipation for precipitation from both people and nature like this in a long time.
We are in the midst of a heat wave... which has been a heat week of 90-95 degree days- with NO RAIN at all. Things are drying up and overheating. Its been way too hot to work outside so very little garden work has been going on besides watering. Even with the evening waterings the plants were wilting... if I didn't water then you can imagine I wouldn't have much to blog about.
The other day while I was finishing up watering in the garden I heard some sounds up in a tree... I meandered over to where the sounds were coming from thinking it was a squirrel running around in the branches. Then all of the sudden there was an eerie sound of creaking and moaning... cracking, a large completely healthy looking branch on a seemingly healthy looking tree... SNAPPED. Right in front of my own eyes! Its still dangling there high up there in the canopy. I've never seen anything like it before. With nothing else being the apparent culprit, I blame water stress (though I am not sure). Even the lawn is dying for crying out loud.
So naturally I decide to do some canning. I'm stuck inside right?
I picked about five pounds of string beans... in particular, purple burgundy beans. These guys were planted back on May 5th. Normally you wouldn't plant beans until after your frost free date, which around here is Memorial day. However, according to one of my gardening books, you can plant purple burgundy beans earlier than regular string beans since they can handle the cold weather better. They are also beautiful.
Interestingly, the beans are only purple on the outside. Even the smallest immature beans are green. Once cooked they turn green again.
Anyway, enough about beans... what did I make out of them?
Dilly beans!
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