Every morning this week after indoor housey stuff was finished - washing, tidying, dusting, that sort of thing - I went and cleared beds of beans. Pods put for drying, leafy stalks in a pile ready to go through the shredder and into the composts. Plus one afternoon of the same - that's a lot of hours just clearing space. Yesterday we had a strimming and raking day and also today, ......countless wheelbarrows of green stuff which has been piled up and covered with black plastic to rot down. Plus today John shredded all the bean stalks I'd piled up this week. All three compost heaps are full to the brim and we've started an extra pile next to them. Hopefully it will all be ready for the autumn when the summer vegetables come out and we rotovate ready for the winter.
The land looks about twice as big now all the green has gone - it's amazing how tall everything gets! The acequias are all cleared out too as tomorrow is our watering day and even a few clumps of cut grass left behind can cause the water to overflow easily when you're busy checking something else.
The beans spend their day outside in the sunshine drying - 2 ex banana boxes, 2 black buckets, 2 compost sacks flattened out, 1 large cardboard box and several smaller seed trays all full of beans. As they dry out and go crunchy, so we sit and de-pod them - helped by Monty and Pip who are ready to catch anything we drop.
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