D'Cats--

I just have to tell about my beans...

I have an 8x24 patch with potatoes (wonderful), tomatoes (just fine), Kentucky wonderbeans (ok), wax beans (bunny chewed), squash (abysmal). I also have one set of three bean poles under which I planted Italian beans (the flat kind). They're spozed to go from seed to bean in 60 days, and I planted them around the middle of May, expecting beans in July sometime.

Well. The vines grew up the poles, flopped over the top, latched onto the garden fence and two adjacent tomato cages, twingled all over those, sent tendrils into my neighbor's yard, and got stalks the diameter of my thumbs. I wondered if p'r'aps I had traded a cow for these things. July came and went...no blossoms, no beans, just luxurious, plate-sized leaves, and a hopeless tangle of vines everywhere. August came and, at the very end of the month, I noticed....

bean blossoms.

Everywhere.

Now I've got about 30 bushels of Italian beans, all about 1 inch long and getting bigger every day.

This might be serious, folks, because I generally eat everything my garden produces. If I manage to eat all this, I may become...

a human bean.

Ok, so you can all groan at me in person at the Getaway. But the bean story is true--I have pictures!

V