First harvests and working hard

This first picture is of the blue lake bush green beans I picked yesterday. It is a lot. The picture doesn't show them well, but believe me there are a lot of them. Alan and I were out puttering around and I happened to look close at the plants and semi shouted, "There they are!!". Alan was a bit confused because I started moving fast up into the garden. I explained myself stating that I had seen the plants flowering but didn't know when the beans would show up and then, TA DAH!! There they were in there wonderful glory!! I plan on pickling some of them. Pickled green beans are VERY good.

I had stated before that one side of the garden was growing better than the other. I think you can see what I mean. The right side there is definitely lagging behind the left. I did, however, get more beans from the smaller plants than the larger ones. It is hard to tell but there is a compost pile up on the upper right corner. We are just waiting to see if the right side there benefits from it. We just might have to wait a bit to find that out. So far we have gotten sugar peas and kale from the garden. There is "tons" of stuff growing, we are just waiting for stuff to ripen now.

As far as hard work goes, here is a picture of our deck, well, where the deck is going to go. I used the tiller to pull out the dirt to make room for it. We are getting ready to head over to lowes to get it all set up. Hopefully we will have it within 2 weeks. The contractor guy wanted to inspect the site before they committed to building it, and was pleasantly surprised to see we had actually done the work. He said that a lot of people don't do what they say they are going to do. He is also going to loan me his small jackhammer so I can bust up the concrete stoop right outside the back door. Ok, I am off to Lowes!!