BEANS ARE UP

BEANS ARE UP!
Planting a garden in October is a new –delightful—experience for me! And, after just seven days the beans are six inches high! We had a small plot, actually three small terraces, dug up just west and up the hill from our apartment. The top one was much too rocky but the bottom two yielded choice soil. Ellen brought several varieties of seeds from Canada. She was especially hopeful about the lettuce. I think a couple short rows might make something but of the rest of the seeds—carrots, cauliflower, cabbage—it seems that the beans are the only ones that are really happy to be here, even though these vegetables do grow here.
We experience heavy rains from May to September (254 cm.; 8 ft. 4 in). The second week of October hosts a Hindu festival (puja) which usually heralds the end of the rains. However, fortunately for our little garden, we are still experiencing drenching rains.
I remember growing a bean plant back in grade 3—I think it was. It is still fascinating to observe what life there is in a seed. I am reminded again for what Jesus said: “A man scattered seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed spsrouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil produces grain—first the stalk, then the head, then the full kernel in the head.” Marvelous!