Nope.Yard Long Beans not the same as Rattlesnake beans. I do love the Asparagus bean yard long beans. Sweet and tender with a taste I prefer to those Blue Lakes I used to grow. Oh and stringless also.

They don't taste exactly like regular cut beans. I think they taste better but there are people that don't like them.

Rita,

I'm envious of your bountiful harvests...

My yard long is gone (they are my main crop for summer); I do like the taste of them and my angled luffa is starting to produce.
Didn't get one bitter melon this year...nor winter melon. My neighbor grows the Indian bitter melon and shared some with me and I shared my angled luffa.

Thanks! But now it is September and the veggie garden will start winding down.

Hard to believe it's September already. Seems just last week we were all complaining about the late spring!

The summers go by much too quickly. And I hate winter!

Lovely new Avatar picture Arlene.

Rita, do you get a lot of snow there?

Down here it rarely snows and then never sticks to the ground. The first year I wad down here I got my mother to come visit from northern MI and I told her how mild the winters were and she would enjoy it. Ha! She came in Dec. and it was the coldest Dec. in like 50 years AND we had snow on the ground the entire time she was here!

Not since then though. Figures!

Sometimes get a lot of snow. Can get up to 18 inches. And then we get winters were there is none! So weird but you never know what your gonna get.

In michigan we measured by how many feet!

A few times in MD we got in the feet too, like almost three!

It does get cold here and I'm glad for that, so many things I like to grow that need a chill period.

Nope, no 3 feet of snow thank goodness!

My squash are a mess. I cut and pulled three plants today. But I am thinking that squash just wanna be done by September in out zone.

I am sure that the secret to success in squash is to plant early before the SVB and powdery mildew gets them. To that end I am thinking of the possibility of putting out baby squash plants in the garden in April in those walls of water made for tomato plants. Maybe get really early fruit that way?

Still pulling tons of 'maters from the garden. Damn plants got down-right HUGE on me this year, staking 'em up has been a fun challenge. And my pepper plants have a lot of peppers set on them right now. Even that 'Chocolate Bell' plant decided to give me one more pepper (a 100% increase, lol).

My 'Early Sunsation' orange bell peppers are ripening to a very nice color. These are very sweet peppers...

Love those Early Sunsations.

Oh, I didn't know about Early Sunsation. I will have to grow it next year now that finally have a nice garden space for pepper plants.

Hurray for lots of tomatoes to pick!

Two more of my squash bit the dust today. As in I pulled them due to the fact that they wilted due to the evil SVB.

Picked my last Sugar Cube melon today and the melon vines look done on and done. Doesn't look like I am going to be getting any fruit from those Sweet Sakura melons I planted.

The Camilla cuke vines are totally done. I picked the last of the Camillas today and probably the last of the Straight Eights as well. That entire larger trellis section is done for and needs to come out.

The Burpless on the short trellis thought are still going strong. Those are amazing.

I took pics but they are in the camera and will not be downloading today.

My last sugar cube melon of the season and it happens to be my biggest one.


Yesterday's cucumber harvest.


Todays eggplant harvest.


Juliet tomatoes from today.


Better Boy, supersonic and Beefmaster tomatoes.

I more tomatoes on my kitchen counter again that I just picked and brought in. I also pulled up and tossed another squash plant. But good news, there is a baby squash set on one of the Poquito Squash plants. The Poquitos where the latest squash seedlings that I had planted.

Here's Poquito!


The Poquito's where the last batch of replacement squash that I started and planted. It has a little squash comming.

Won't be long now!

One of my -- well, rather two -- yellow crooked neck squash melded together. I'll try and remember to take a picture. Guess there were two blossoms next to each other and the squashes just grew together.

Arlene, I bet that looks weird.

Those poquitos are cute things. Marked like mini watermelons. I just got it cause it looked so cute!