#wax beans

[fattributes]

Three Bean Salad with Tarragon Dressing

[thatsbelievable]

[weirdpngs]

[ahedderick]

I am becoming extremely enthusiastic about wax beans. I' may make that your problem.

[polish-food]

Fasolkowa - Polish Yellow Wax Bean Soup (recipe in Polish)

[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!

[dereksgarden]

Flower update! The cantaloupe flowers are starting to open up, and now we have flowers on our wax beans and green beans :)

[daily-deliciousness]

Garlic butter green beans & wax beans skillet