The BEANS of summer!

 

It's not really summer, to me, until you start getting BEANS! So, we are happy to announce that the beans are ready to pick at both Aptiv and City Hall. At both gardens, we have pole beans growing vertically (on the center hoop at City Hall) and bush beans covering long beds at both. Most of the bush beans are green - Jade and Red Tail - and very prolific. At the City Hall Garden, the north five feet or so of the bean bed has Dragon Tongue yellow wax beans. They are ready when the beans are big and yellow with purple streaks.

Please pick the beans so they will keep producing, but if the plants are wet, please wait so we don't spread blight!

If you want advice about picking beans, harvesting potatoes (they are ready, too!) or anything else, please come to one of our group garden times. But, if you can't make it, feel free to pick what you need from the garden.

Group garden times:

• Aptiv = Fridays at 8 a.m. (we will add Tuesdays at 8 later this month)
• City Hall = Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.
• Hogan = Wednesdays at 8 a.m.