Beautiful! Was it a seed mix? I think I’m growing something similar.I made this. I had to make a few harvests. 
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First of the apples: Williams Pride. I ran them through the food dehydrator. I will be processing some Pristine apples later in the day today.
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Yes it was a mix, from West Coast Seeds, I think. Last year I grew wax beans on the far side of my tomatoes and everything got so overgrown that I couldn’t pick them till October, when they were basically freeze dried. My mum shelled them and made baked beans with them! She hates to waste anything. Your tomato and bean dish looks delicious! I still have some weeks to wait for tomatoes.
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Today’s harvest of a similar mix, from Renee’s I think. I wish mixes would include the names of varieties.
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Actually I think I did my own mix this year!
“Escamillo” peppers, which I also bought a separate package of seeds for, after a disappointing three color “mix” of Italian frying peppers last year
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We were out in the garden today and found out what has been eating some of our tomatoes (although I don’t think much since I posted, since we’ve been picking the tomatoes at first blush and letting them ripen inside). Right under our compost bin, a little baby bunny has taken up residence. I assume the mother isn’t far off. We have the compost bin right outside the garden and we watched the baby bunny squeeze under our fence and go right into the garden and hop around. It is really one of the cutest things I’ve seen and my daughter insisted that we return some of the ever so slightly ripe tomatoes we’d just picked back to the ground by the compost bin for the bunny to munch on. I agreed since we have a ton and I would love to see this bunny survive beyond babyhood!
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Was he wearing a little blue jacket?
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In other garden-dweller news, earlier this year a mourning dove nested on the storage shelf on our balcony and raised a chick. I wasn’t thrilled about it - in fact, I tried to throw out the nest several times, until I saw an egg in it - but we got used to each other. Here’s mom and the kid:
After some time, chick fledged, we pitched the nest, end of story. I thought. Tomorrow, H and I leave for a two-week trip to Scotland. I have a friend who will house-sit and take care of the plants and the cat while we’re gone. She is petrified of birds. Do you see where this is going?
On Thursday, the doves returned and started rebuilding. I tried like hell to discourage them, but they were very determined. Finally, I made the storage shelf as inhospitable as I could.
And then I went away for the weekend, hoping I had succeeded. I returned this afternoon and carefully scanned the shelf - no sign of birds. I breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to water my window boxes.
Sitting right on top of my damn dill. Two eggs this time. My phobic friend is going to try to deal, but I also had to enlist a neighbor to take over watering if the bird freaks her out too much. Never a dull moment.
But hey, tomatoes!
And I came home with a big bunch o’ beans from my upstate garden.
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What a great story! And the beans look amazing! I’ve been wanting to try something like that. Do you know the variety)
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Kentucky Wonder is a great bean. If we didn’t grow Blue Lake, we’d grow Kentucky Wonder. Ed Hume, a local guy here in PNW who gardens by the Zodiac 
, also sells them:
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I have grown Blue Lake in past years. They really produce, but the Kentucky Wonder seems to get very long without getting starchy, which works well for me as I only see my garden every couple of weeks.
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In the better-late-than-never department, has summer finally arrived in the PNW?
We’ve been getting a lot of zucchini and blueberries, and our worst corn crop ever started delivering two days ago (most years it would be over by now). The tomatoes still are just setting, and peppers are miniscule and very, very iffy for the year.
Today, at least, there is a little more variety.
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Pretty cool that Tippi Hedren housesits for you!
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Adding red peppers to the yellow; these are mostly Carmen, but also Corno di toro.
If anyone has ideas for too many please share here!
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Actually Suzanne Pleshette, which explains a lot.
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Latest from the garden, which is having a great year attributed to cool (for us) temps.
Dwarves Gloria’s Treat, Fred’s Tie Dye, Gloria’s Treat, Perfect Harmony, Wild Fred,
Wild Fred
Fred’s Tie Dye
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So pretty!
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My tomatoes right now. 62 day Ultra Sweets and 75 day Glamours.
They’re mixed in the basket, I’m not sure which are which. I’ll keep them separate next time I pick them.
Glamour is a standardized cross developed by Bird’s Eye, that’s been around since 1957. It does well in dry heat, apparently.
Ultra Sweet is a hybrid staking tomato. Less information online about how it came to be.
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