Beans

For the past four months we have had a huge amount of beans from our one bean plant.  It is quite amazing that this little bush can produce so many beans.  And, the more you harvest the more they produce to be harvested.  This little bean bush is so very kind to us.  We have had many meals with beans as one of the vegetables, and when I say this I mean at least a handful of beans for each of us.

What a wonderful pastime our veggie patch is.  We've been blessed with potato's, broccoli, cauliflower, tomato's, lettuce, cabbage, leaks, spinach, rocket, maize, butternut and are waiting for the pumpkins to happen.  We are putting stuff away in the freezer for the winter months too.  Our crop of weeds is remarkable, but then they are the garden companions we share and do battle with.

The trick, it seems is to have an unlimited supply of kraal manure and some snail bait.  Water is nearby so the summer months are fruitful.  And on the subject of fuit, our apple tree has been breaking it's branches to give us hundreds if not thousands of apples.  The plumb tree was a great supplier of fresh fruit for the table but, alas, it has stopped it's production of fruit for the season.

I wish we could eat the fruit of the lawn.  That mix of eragrostis and kikuyu is waging a war against the lawnmower.  Never mind, the winter will take over the labours of the lawnmower when the season changes.