Harvesting and Falling

Shouldn’t that title be harvesting IN the fall? Yes. And it would be if I weren’t the gardener! 

The good news is, I harvested 23 bush beans on Thursday! I wasn’t sure they were ready and how exactly to go about it, so a little reading from a few trusted sources on the web and to harvesting I went! Apparently the BEST time to harvest is while the dew is still on the plants. And being that I had to go to work, I obviously had to play in the garden before getting ready for work. So, crack of dawn it was. 

 If you haven’t checked lately, ‘crack of dawn’ is still pretty dark. Add that to the fact that I’d moved bins around and made for very little room on the sidewalk to the side of the garden: you can almost see the recipe for disaster. I harvested the beans - 23 of ‘em remember? - and was coming out of the garden, with my phone as a flashlight, and my coffee cup (why? crack of dawn!), and the basket with my 23 beans, onto the sidewalk and was trying to thread my way between the planter (just off the sidewalk) and the 103 qt bins that was taking up most of the sidewalk. Long story short, I fell. There’s the ‘Fall” part.

Didn’t do too much damage; “too much” is the operative phrase. I accidentally trimmed the green pepper plant which had a main “trunk” but has a side stem that has two peppers growing on it. So thankful that the taller part of the plant  - that I grabbed in desperation to not fall - didn’t have the peppers on it! I ended up on the sidewalk between the bins and the planter on my left side/back. Back of my thigh caught the bins, cracked the corners of two bins and got a couple of nice bruises to “mark” the event. So I’m a little sore and the bins are cracked, but that’s why they make ibuprofen and duct tape.

So, I harvested and I fell. Maybe next time I can “just” harvest.