Not a surprise, but #3 None the less

Your "surprises" in your garden all sound so yummy. My dad used to grow a huge garden, and there would always be the race to see who could get to the ripe veggies first. My dad and I would eat so many of the green beans that we would end up too full to eat dinner! LOL

Now I'm jealous - deer ate all but 2 of my bean plants and as I got them in late because of moving I won't be getting beans for some time yet.

I love fresh green beans. We have not a lot of sunny places to plant vegetables. Usually we plant pole beans in huge pots and let them run up the poles that are place in the pots. But, I decided to not do it this year. I miss not having the fresh picked beans. They taste so much better than store bought.

Ill be over soon to take some off your hands lol. Mine are flowering and big but no beans just yet.

All green vegetables & salads are very good for you. I rated your photo & wrote a comment of your very healthy looking crop. Here is a green bean recipe that I think will be okay for your Dad too: Skillet Green Beans and Peppers Green beans cooked in the skillet with bell peppers and onion, along with garlic and seasonings. INGREDIENTS: 16 ounces green beans, cooked 1 red bell pepper, sliced in strips 1 yellow or orange bell pepper, sliced in strips 1 small onion, halved and sliced 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 tablespoons butter salt and pepper PREPARATION: Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add cooked green beans, peppers, onion, and garlic. Cook slowly, stirring, until peppers are crisp tender, about 8 to 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Oh great! We have at least 3 more weeks before our plants grow anything on them- I wish I lived elsewhere- NY-- it just started to get hot out- and we've been watering the garden morning and night- I can't wait for our beans to grow- This is my least favorite part of our garden- picking beans- I love picking all other veggies- but the beans get me- I enlist my daughter to help!

Ugg, I don't even want to think about green beans. Every year, my aunt, (who lives right across the road from me) plants to many beans. She always calls my mom & asks if she wants some. Of course, she does. But then she dont have time to pick & fix them. So she will ask me to do it. It never fails, I pick her 3 5 gallon buckets. Then she asks me if I have time to help her brake them. I will go over to help her but she starts doin somethin else & I end up brakin them by myself. My little cousin use to come over & mix the "bad parts" & ends back in with the good stuff. Now that he is finally old enough to know not to do that, my niece has started. Oh the joys of green beans which by the way, I would never eat. I hate the taste. Or maybe I just hate them becaue I've had to pick so many of them! Haha

One of my favorite memories is one of my kids going to their great uncle's garden and picking fresh peas to eat out of the pod. It was wonderful.

You have quite the crop going this year. I love fresh green beans steamed and with lots of butter! I guess for me I will have to go out and buy some.

My bush beans I ate the fist batch off of them last week. I am ready for the second picking. I do not think I have as many plants as you do. This is the first year I am trying my had at gardening. I am doing it slowly and very small.

Please send me some if you can....I wish i could see the green bens specially the greens of your garden......why not gie some picture of the green and dont forget to post any the dish your wife is making ith them, I will look for that on this weekend, enjoy the beans

Hello dear Grandpa Bob. I am very happy that you had a fruitful green beans last year, because this discussion was posted ten months ago when I happened to see it under similar discussion after I had responded to some discussion about green beans of another friend of mine, including yours as well. I hope that your green beans this year will be harvested as well, giving a bigger surprise. Happy posting, Grandpa Bob and say hi for me to Grandma Bob for her hard and busy work freezing and cooking the green beans.