The first picking of my bush beans.

I knew there was some nice beans on the bush bean plants, but it's been hot and muggy, and I was being lazy about picking them. We finally got a break in the weather yesterday, so I went out and picked the beans. I didn't really know what to expect, I have a single row of plants in the new raised bed, the row is roughly 11 feet long, the rest of the raised bed is being used for a compost pile this year. These plants are the bush Contender variety.

I started picking like this. That little rolling garden seat is quite useful for stuff like this. It was only 20 bucks, but it does the job well enough.

As you can see, I have a few beans in the bucket.

Here's a close-up of what I was finding.

Here's the end result of my picking. I was surprised by how many beans I got from this one fairly short row of beans.

The best part is that this was just the first picking. There's a fair amount of small beans on the plants and a lot of flowers. I should get a pretty respectable harvest from these plants. Now I just have to can them...oh well, it's part of the process, right?

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