Purple kohlrabi,
purple carrots,
purple tomatoes,
purple eggplants, and now...purple beans!
Royal Burgundy Bush Beans, to be exact.
September 11, 2020
Supposedly, they turn green when you cook them...but none have made it into the house to be cooked so far. I like to stand in the garden late in the morning eating my fill of purple (and
green) beans.
September 11, 2020
June 26, 2020
As the lettuce bolted, I'd pull each plant out and replace with a purple bean seed. This worked sort of like succession planting, extending my bean season. As the
Kentucky wonder pole beans were starting to slow down production, this pile of bush beans started producing!
July 24, 2020 - bean seedlings are the rightmost plants
Whereas the green pole beans had white and yellow flowers, these beauties have deep purple blossoms. Very, very pretty!
No real pests to speak of this year. Likely because I battled a good chunk of the Japanese Beetle population away from the nearby green beans. Something of the insect-type was definitely nibbling at some of the leaves, but not in any significant amount. I suspect planting these fairly late in the season likely helped us avoid some pests.
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