Yard long beans
This is the bloom of a yard long bean plant.
I just love them. Okras and yard long beans have the prettiest blooms.
If you've never had yard long beans you should give them a try. They are a longer, skinnier green bean. They're an Asian variety and called yard long because they can literally get that long though they are best to be picked at about 12 inches or so. They have a slight nutty flavor and can be used in the same way as regular green beans. They're also excellent for stir fry because they don't "mush up" as easily as a regular green bean.
Here are some beans I harvested last year.
If you'd like to plant some, know they come under different names. I've seen them packaged as yard long beans, asparagus beans, dau gok, snake bean, Chinese yardlong bean and more.
UPDATE Wouldn't you know..........I talk about the yard longs and when I checked the garden I noticed the first few forming.
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jessica,
How close is a neighbor to you? I am glad that you are living the life you want .Everyone has dreams and to follow them is a gift. My husbands dad died when he was a 8th grader. He became the bread winner . His brother was only a 2nd grader. His mother worked cleaning houses and ironing.. we got married in 72. We now farm and own our own ground. We are blessed to do what we want. Farming is not easy and if you live close to a big city the price a person can get for their ground. farming is on the losing end . linda
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The neighbors are a few feet away. It's a typical neighborhood.
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WOW eggcetra_farms, you live in the city and are allowed to have chickens, I just live in a village and we cannot have anything like that, nothing that can be considered farm animals...I swear I am moving, where I live there are more rules than in some communist country.......
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If I were in incorporated San Antonio I would be limited as follows:
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I have to have tomatoes. I plant caspian pink and brandywine kind . They have a good acid flavor. you have to cage them as they get rot on the bottom. Take forever to ripe though. So usually plant a early girl variety to get by till they are. Summer squash , zuccuni and yellow crook neck ,of course cucumbers. At the farm we plant maybe a half acre of watermelon , yellow and red. Crismon sweet and charleston grey and ambrosia cantaloupe and of course sweet corn. We plant the bi color kind . I share with my neighbors. The only problem I have is getting rid of all the squash once it gets going. We plant howden pumpkins for the grandkids . have to wait the the regular corn planting to have help. This is a far cry from when we were in our mid 30's when we had a 10 acre truck garden. Whew!! alot of work but met alot of nice people. Both my husband have seen 50 come and go and the better half is in his 60's .But the garden bug never leaves you.
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Wow! That's a lot of planting. We dream of a proper farm one day. Right now we live in the city so we just have a regular sized backyard to play with BUT we've managed to have enough room for the garden, chickens and rabbits. Oh, what I would do with more room........
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They do have a pretty bloom . I have never have tried them but have heard of them. I am a getting the itch to play in the dirt. . I cleaned out the weeds and trash from my flower bed yesterday and planted more perennials. I will start to plant the vegetables sometime next week.
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How fun! What all are you going to plant?
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