Friday, September 14, 2012

So Happy Separate -- morning glories and pole beans

As summer ends the morning glories are finally blooming -- this season not sharing a structure with the beans like last year (a bad idea, the beans were overwhelmed!).
I have grown many different colors and patterns of morning glories, and they are all beautiful, but the blues are my favorites. Last year I grew a swirling white and blue variety, but this year I went back to the classic 'Heavenly Blue'.  They look so clean and fresh in the ragged late summer garden.


Nearby, happy alone, is a  planting of 'Goldmarie' pole bean:


And also nearby is a new variety, the productive and tender (even when large) 'Rattlesnake' pole bean, which in this picture has escaped it's poles and is climbing up the adjoining 10 foot tall Sunchokes:


Here's the  beans I picked yesterday - a mix of both pole varieties and a few 'Dragon's Tongue' bush beans. They were  delicious cooked five minutes (until  just tender) over a bed of mashed 'Yukon Gold' potatoes (my own, of course).