If thy bean offend thee....

It's been hotter than blue blazes around here for the past few days.  What with the heat and all the corn-putting-up and the wallpaper-taking-down, the vegetable garden has been neglected these past few days.  (By me, at least; the varmints apparently have been visiting regularly.)  Yesterday when I came home from work, I pulled into Nanny's driveway instead of mine and went to see what needed doing. 

Grassy, grassy garden.  Some tomato plants drooping from last week's double drowning, others firing up with late blight.  Discarded nibbled tomato fruit all around.  Squash as big as baseball bats.  New green beans and new purple hull peas growing like crazy.  Old green beans and old purple hull peas still just sitting there, taking up space, not earning their keep.

I fired up the big black tiller and chomped them up with it.  The butterbeans survived the slaughter only because they are blooming better than they've bloomed so far.  They apparently liked all the water.

Anyway, there are four empty rows just itching to have something planted in them.  It's supposed to cool off later in the week.  Maybe I'll have decided what to plant by then.