#garden beans

[ave-studios]

Aline van Enckevort - Harvest mini cards

July 2024

[askwhatsforlunch]

Halloumi Green Bean, Cucumber and Tomato Salad (Vegetarian)

This colourful Halloumi Green Bean, Cucumber and Tomato Salad, fragrant with fresh herbs, and topped with warm, crispy cheese is a delicious lunch to enjoy in the garden, whence some of its ingredients come from!

Ingredients (serves 1):

a small bunch Garden Chives 

a couple of sprigs Garden Dill 

1 fluffy sprig Garden Parsley

1 fluffy sprigs Garden Chervil 

half a dozen leaves garden mint

½ lemon

1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper

1 1/2 tablespoon olive oil

1 cup Garden Green Beans, boiled and cooled

1 just ripe tomato, rinsed

1/4 cucumber, rinsed

1/4 teaspoon fleur de sel or sea salt flakes

1/2 tablespoon olive oil

50 grams/1.25 ounce Halloumi Cheese

Finely chop Garden Chives, Dill, Parsley, Chervil and mint, and spoon into serving plate. Thoroughly grate in about a teaspoonful of the lemon zest.

Season with black pepper.

Drizzle with olive oil, squeeze in the juice of the lemon halve, and give a good stir to combine well.

Cut Green Beans into chunks, dice tomato and slice cucumber.

Add Green Bean chunks, tomato dices and cucumber slices to the plate. Sprinkle with fleur de sel, and toss well to coat in dressing.

Chill in the refrigerator, at least an hour.

Just before serving, heat olive oil in a small frying pan over a high flame.

Cut Halloumi cheese into slices.

Once the oil is hot, add Halloumi slices, and fry, a couple of minutes on each side until golden brown and crispy.

Top salad with hot Halloumi slices. Grate a little lemon zest on top.

Enjoy Halloumi Green Bean, Cucumber and Tomato Salad immediately, with a glass of chilled dry white wine like a Chablis or Chardonnay.

[rattyexplores]

✤ Omiodes diemenalis, “Bean Leafroller” - Crambidae

(Food plants include: Various beans or Fabaceae; Glycine max “Soybeans”, Phaseolus vulgaris “Garden Beans”, Vigna radiata “Mung Beans”)

07/03/21

[askwhatsforlunch]

Growing Tip: Growing Garden Wax Beans and First Harvest

You might remember I told you about Planting Wax and Green Beans. I planted the first seedlings in the Squash Square on the mid-April, and today (1st July), I harvested my first Wax Beans!

In the meantime, I watered them very regularly --at their feet, not on their leaves-- and as they grew, I helped them onto the treillis. Then, they started blooming, cute pale mauve little flowers, by the end of May. It was the bees’ moment; they pollinated, and I kept watering: once a month, I would mix 1 cup Onion Skin Decoction and 4 cups Nettle Soup in a watering can, and top with about 8 litres of water, give a good stir and water my seedlings with this natural fertiliser.

On the 6th of June, the first beans were forming. They kept growing all month, new flowers bloomed, more bees came, and tentative beans appeared.

The older ones grew longer and paler --this characteristic cream yellow colour-- and today, I harvested six of them (along with Mesclun, Parsley, Chives and basil), gently cutting them off the plant, being careful not to tear them. Harvesting beans when they are ready --cream yellow, and firm to the touch-- will allow the plant to produce new flowers and more beans! If you let them mature on the vine, the plant will eventually die.

Thus, I picked the first six Wax Beans of the season: a modest harvest perhaps, but quite enough for a salad!

[karma-blood]

Some beans that are related to the garden companions but are in their own family.

A juvenile and adult chili powder bean. Their face can be on either side.

Some baby pea beans. Very tiny very cute

[justreachingfor]

If I can do it, then you know it's gotta be pretty easy to grow garden beans at home in your own garden too. Been failing at keeping succulents alive for years... and now I just ate three little bean pods that I grew... I'll take it ✌️ 

[garygardiner]

First corn of the season at the Wednesday Uptown Market in Westerville.

[northern-gardening]

The growing season is starting to wind down here. I decided to finish off the season with some garden beans, I’ve already harvested enough for 5 people and I haven’t had these growing that long!