We got beans a comin'

I finally have flowers on my beans. The summer heat played havoc with my garden and we are still at 200 pounds and counting, but one of the hardest hit by the heat were the earlier beans. Apparently, we just had too much heat this year and a neighbor stressed that she could not get any beans either. Even one of my doctors who is a weekend gardener said he got two potfuls of beans and then they died.

The sugar snap peas are dawdling like a turtle and a hare race. They rushed out of the ground only to go so slowly now. They are still very tender and young. The tendrils that the peas use to help them climb are very easily broken, not like the ones on my pole beans that could strangle somebody.

We now have lots of new tomatoes growing, the lettuce is getting closer to a salad bowl everyday, and much to my dogs' delight the zucchini and patty pan are giving us a bountiful harvest. Maggie, my 11 week old doxie pup, is enjoying squash like the rest of her family.

With each changing season, we can grow different things, but we can never have the really good things at the same time.

That's a gardener's life.