I love the fava blossoms and they have such a wonderful delicate scent. We ate all the beans and I'll be planting some Guatemalan Purple favas this fall for early spring harvest once I lay out next years planting scheme.



This is the second planting of Royal Burgundy bush beans. They get beat up badly by slugs, but they seem pretty tough so I'll see if I can find them a better place next year. There is a squash of unknown variety headed Downriver and behind this bed is the former Dwarf Grey snow pea bed now wearing a cloche. The laundry basket is for hauling out weeds.



Here we have a mishmash of late planted things. Last year I had a box of my seeds get wet in the greenhouse so after we put together this quick bed out of old porch pieces, I dumped the packets and envelopes into the dirt. There is mostly various squashes, tomatoes and tomatillos. It's unlikely anything will ripen as I tossed them out there in early July, but it'll be good green compost.



I suppose I could eat these, but they're the female flowers as the males have already come and gone. It's an El Niño year so we're due for a mild winter. It's fun to see how far things will go before the rains come.

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