Full of beans

No reason to not use your best china for everyday events.

This bowl may not look like your typical "fine china" but believe me,

that's what it is around my digs.  

I needed to soak the Borlotti seeds overnight, you see....

since they're hard-shelled and all that...and since one of the raised beds has a new trellis

destined to be filled with beans.

Constructed the  sucker  trellis all by myself.

Sometimes you just have to build something when you don't think you can.

This one is heftier than the first ~ these bamboo poles are a whopping 1.5 inches thick.  Thankfully,

 not the bear I was expecting when it came to assembling...amazingly light, albeit a tad unwieldy...
all eight feet of them.

Borlotti beans are commonly called cranberry beans in the states.  Considered heirlooms,
they came over with the colonists from England around 1825.  The seeds

are red-speckled just like their pods.

Can't wait to see those pods!

Kaite, although you're heading into winter where you are, my growing season is starting

with this bean inspiration from your blog.  Thanks again.

I purchased organic seeds from these great folks

and found a whole bunch of interesting information and yummy sounding recipes over here.

I'm not sure any potter could have created better glazes to show off this bean gathering...

Here's a show off.  She is ALWAYS *full of beans*...'specially if you bring out her friz.

S'cuse the brief digression.  She has that effect on me...pretty much all the time.

Now, I have a question for all you bean-growing peeps who come a'wandering here...

got a minute?

I still have room on the other side of this trellis to sow another variety.  Thought it might be fun to

grow a 2nd, somewhat different type of bean....oooh, but there are so many choices...which one to choose???

I'd be so pleased to have you tell me one of your favorites...send me in a direction, puh-leeez...

shall I go with a yellow wax, some kind of gourmet Frenchie variety, perhaps something with Cherokee ancestry?

There's even a pole bean called 'Lazy Housewife.'

That one seems appropriate.

I've got six and 1/2 feet of space looking for a purpose.

Thank you.

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