Couldn't get a great pic of the entire garden but it's this mess. This is the epitomy of a test garden - I have lots of plants just taking up space and others making food. I can already pull enough beans to go with a meal - too warm though and the peas petered out. planting more beans to fill in gaps.
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I have some pretty beans, but the Landreth Stingless and the Calima are both good early producers. The Landreth is just a snap bean, but the Calima is a long skinny one like the fancy ones you pickle or saute whole. The best producer for weight is the Dragons Tongue - which has also been the easiest to manage and the prettiest
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The Red Swan pole beans are just coming on but should add color to the garrden
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Here's a perfect little slice of the success/fail. On the right is a dangly string wiere a Phils One tomato was - chipmunks took the roots. The monster is an orange accordion - also a novelty tomato - it has made a few flowers so far - no fruit starting. The left is the Phills Two and it might be culled.
The beans on the right are the Calima - supposed to be bush beans but the bean weight makes them fall over (noted). The shrubs to the left are blackbeans and they haven't made a bean yet, but are looking to be a large later producer.
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The Phils tomatoes are lots of skin no meat. Thats one tomato, and you can see from all the flower stalks around it that didn't pollinate worth shit.
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Crappy pic but here's what the new ones are looking like. So unless these taste like the best tomatoes ever they are just taking up space.
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I have others that make food
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I am also impressed with the Reisentraube cherry tomato. If it pollinates well - just WOW!! That is one tomato plant. It has a plant, then these sidecar limbs FULL of flowers, and a few have already started.
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I have some sweet potatoes in the ground but had more plants than I had room for. Forest soil with whatever living soil was around the potatoes, then rice hull mulch. Looks like straw mushrooms
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