2022 Outdoor Garden

I had picked some string beans early over a week ago and their flavor was rather just green.. not much bean taste.  So I left them get older and larger, just picked a few to try tonight.  My god we are going to have a lot of beans.  My wife just suggested we should blanch some and freeze them, then cook them too see if the flavor changes.  Lima beans taste completely different fresh vs blanched and frozen.   Once blanched and frozen, Limas from the garden taste like limas from the grocery store freezer!  
Will let you know what we find out .

BTW I thought the coffee cup would help scale but not sure it did.. that is an 8" wide bowl.. gona be a LOT of beans..

I think they tasted a little more like normal fresh or frozen beans but sill did have "Green Grass" taste going on.  We blanched what we did not eat and they are in the freezer for tomorrow. Hope they loose that green.. read online that they may be under cooked but she says no..  they are not crunchy.. so I have to guess they are cooked.  More to come..

Happy 4th of July!   What a wonderful day here just out side the Philadelphia.  Not a cloud in the sky, dew point in the low 50s with a breeze!!! 
Most of the garden is doing well, picked 2 bags of beans yesterday.. Next year I must buy Blue Lake bean.. should have looked on the front of the Demonte can .. Wife does not like these Emerite variety and truthfully I am not crazy about them either, but will be eating them for the next year.
Garlic are about ready to dig out, and onions and shallots are bulbing up nicely. 
Peppers are doing ok, I think, they do take a while to get going.   
The one tomato in the big pot has some type of ailment, not sure if it is one of the Soil born varieties or fungus, but I striped most of the leaves to see what happens.. Did see some similar discoloration on my Early 4ths which are doing great (have picked 10 of them already) so I pray it is not a fungus..  The soil in the pot is from the store, so it is possible it was from that.

Eggplant has 2 fruit on it, but seems a little slower than normal, but has a lot of new shots.

Lima beans just germinating and the ones that didn't were just replaced with more seed yesterday.. Not sure they will do much, they should have been planted over a month ago, but we shall see what happen.   I really wanted to put carrots where they are but will have to plant them where the onions are, even though they were in that location last year..   

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Wow, airscapes ! What an awesome garden!  Congratulations on all of your your beautiful successes!

Lynnee, it is the easiest thing to grow and can be grown in pots!  To try it just buy a garlic bulb at the grocery store about a moth before last frost.  What you get in the store is normally softneck which will last 12 months when pullled fresh and well cured.
The  softneck  only needs a few weeks of 40s to be happy (bulbs need cold for whatever reason)..
So in March (South East PA) stick a pointy broom stick in the ground and make a 2" deep hole.  Stick 1 unpeeled clove in the hole with flat end (root end) down, cover hole, wait, Pull up full bulb of garlic in July.  Curing and storing is more work than the growing !

I do believe softneck is what is grown in CA.. just google it, lots of data.  You can also put it in the fridge before planting if need be.. 

savvygardening.com/planting-garlic-in-the-spring/

Love to see that!