A new addition to my beans this year is the Chinese Red Noodle Bean from the Bakers Creek Seed catalog. They are really an interesting plant. For most of the summer they sat at the bottom or the trellis with only a couple inches growth.
Just at the moment I had given up on them they sprang to the top of the trellis and produced some interesting flowers .They either resemble an alien or an angel, not sure which.
Then, magically , the red beans appear, looking like a cascade of fireworks.
I picked one off and tried it right off the and it was good! (and almost a meal in itself.)I gathered the longest ones and brought them inside. I knew I was going to blow the kids mind with these babies. What was their reaction? Nothing, nada, zilch- not even the usual eye roll.
Whatever, I'm a dork I know. But these are really cool beans.
They are so colorful. I grew some yard long beans this year, just to see how they would do. They did pretty good.
ReplyDelete