Maybe in just a few more days the corn will be ready to eat. The seed catalogs said these varieties should be ready to harvest in about seven weeks. However, perhaps because it has been pretty cool here this summer, it has taken several weeks longer than that. Also, the catalog entry for one of the varieties indicated that it would be about six feet tall and that the other six and a half feet. They got the first one correct, but half the other patch is more like eight feet tall. Not that I care as long as they fill out lots of sweet delicious ears.
Meanwhile we got several pounds of green beans from the initial two square feet planted and have much of it in the freezer for later. The bean plants are pretty much past their prime and I should probably pull them out next week. A later second planting did not do so well because the growth from the first batch and other veggies in neighboring squares encroached on their space. That is fine – we will still get enough from the second batch to have fresh picked green beans for a few meals.
The shelling peas got a bad case of powdery mildew on the lower parts because the vegetation was too thick and close together on the shadier side of the beds. It looks like they are a lot taller than expected and would have been better on a trellis or other support. While the top half now seems like it will be producing nicely, the powdery mildew has spread through the squash and pumpkin leaves and makes for a not so pretty garden. Hopefully, we will do better with how things are planted next year.