Notorious G.I.G.(I.) 🍄‍🟫 on Nostr: 1/👩🏾‍🌾🧵 I have been spent the last couple of days doing end of season ...

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I have been spent the last couple of days doing end of season garden tasks. It's nice to be able to take advantage of working from home (I'm also on call for legal support) and some warm daytime temps.

Tasks included: final harvesting of beans, cutting back the tomato plants to the soil, preparing some soil amendments, collecting the garden accessories like tomato cages steaks clips &c. and harvesting amaranth seeds.

BEANS 🫘

I tend to separate my beans into dry beans and green beans—even when the beans in question are purple.

For the ones that I'm saving as seeds I drop a couple of pods into an organza bag with the label. The rest I just kind of throw in a big pile to be beaten and used all together. I'm too busy; I'm not going to worry about only having the white beans for baked beans or whatever. It's all going to be multicoloured bean stew or chili.

I don't think I mentioned that I tend to grow the beans in the potato bags once the potatoes are harvested. Once they are done growing, I just cut the plants back to the soil rather than pulling them out. This way, the roots can can help replenish some of the nitrogen over the winter as they break down. (I also have made the Ultimate Soil Amendment blend for heavy feeders like potatoes and tomatoes, but we'll get back to that later.)

Additionally, I am putting the pods (the dry outer husks) into the blender to break them down so that they can be put in the plant pots as well to help add nutrition back.

I leave the shelled beans in an organza bag for a few days to dry out fully, just in case.

Dang. I have some other advice to share about cleaning your plant labels and steaks and stuff so that they last longer, but I may not have time to do the second part of this thread immediately. Maybe later tonight after I finish a couple of indoor tasks.

#gardening #ContainerGardening #GrowYourOwn #GigiGarden