Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?

[K Atie]

Go to  few more seedlings, coloured silver beet and beetroot , will nurture these as quite cold mornings now .

[achookwoman]

KAtie, my gardening neighbour said it is now too cold to plant seeds.  Seedlings ok.
It is lovely in the garden these cool days.  I am still picking Zuchinnis.  The cherry tomatoes have ripened indoors.
Yesterday I picked the whole plant of sprouting broccoli .  I chopped up the leaves and cooked them in a hot pan with mushrooms.  No water.  It will make a good pizza topping for vegetarian GD. The leaves were a bit spicy , like water cress.

[cookie1]

DH stole a bean from our Chinese neighbours (they are lovely) and decided to grow these. I don’t like them as a bean. Does anyone know what they are please and different ways we could eat them. They are frolific.

[achookwoman]

Cookie, I think they are Snake beans.  In  Chinese cooking they are often cut into small pieces about the size of a pea.
GD is coming again today to help in the garden. 

[cookie1]

Thanks Chookie. We also grow green snake beans which I enjoy.

[Cuilidh]

I would say they are snake beans as well, Cookie.  Do they change colour when you cook them?  I quite like them on the odd occasion when I buy them

[cookie1]

No, they stay purple. They have a very different taste to our green snake beans. DH really enjoys them and makes himself a salad from them.