It doesn’t seem possible but we are on the last irrigation of the season for the pinto beans.  The pods are full and the beans are starting to harden up, once the pods stripe Terry will put the bean puller on the tractor and pull the plants.  This will allow them to dry.  Then he will combine.

About the middle of September (is our prediction) we will begin the harvest of the pinto beans.

This year I have raised 10 different varieties of dry bush beans (like pinto beans).  Because they are in the yard they are ripening and getting ready for harvest sooner.

I just harvested my Red Mexican bean.

I have several others in the drying stage,

of course my harvest is all done by hand 🙂

The sweet corn harvest is in full swing also.  We wake up every morning (5:00) to the sound of the sweet corn pickers on thier way to work.  The first load of corn heads into the cooler around 6:30. They stop picking about dark.   If you see Olathe Sweet or Mountain Sweet—-sweet corn in your market you will know it came from a farm somewhere close to ours!

Enjoy your summer, it’s starting to some to a close when the harvests begin!

Linda

The first correspondent of the first newspaper in Delta