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Hello, Hive Gardeners! 👨‍🌾

This is my sixth post this year in the Hive Garden community. An occasional photo blog about my work in the fields and the crops we grow.
When I started doing this, about eight or nine years ago, the primary purpose was to grow our own vegetables instead of buying them in stores. We have been partially successful.

Carrots are one such example. We plant them every year, but without success. Not a single plant has ever grown. They were also protected from pests, but nothing helped. I still have to buy them. Onions and red beets grow, but they are only slightly larger than walnuts.

So as not to complain, a few days ago we returned from a two-week vacation by the sea. As usual, the field has turned into a jungle, muddy from the rain. I won't need an irrigation system anymore. The field is full of weeds, but there are also some crops.

Finally, some tomatoes. Mostly small cherry tomatoes.

There are a few other varieties, but there are even more green ones.

Today, as I write this, the temperature dropped to 6 degrees Celsius overnight, which is very low and usually causes tomatoes to become diseased and fail to ripen. We'll see in the following days.

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There should be celery and parsley here. I even have trouble finding them.

Leafy cabbage, chard, leeks, and green lettuce grow well in this soil and moisture.

We picked some peppers last time, and we will choose some more.

The cucumbers have fallen ill; only one remains. Even some zucchini are still growing.

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The most rewarding plants, those that always yield rich harvests in our fields, are green beans in pods and borloti beans.
These yellow beans are of the 'barjanec' variety of green beans, an old Slovenian variety from the Ljubljana Barje. Barje means marsh in English, and our soil obviously suits them well.
They bear fruit at the end of August, when it usually starts raining again, as it is doing now. My wife and I harvested 8 kilograms in this round :)

Next up is the Italian borlotti bean, or cranberry bean, which also grows well here. The pods and beans themselves are a colorful red and white, and we harvest them in the fall when they dry out.

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Now for the pumpkins.
My pumpkin patch got sick almost entirely, and started to dry up, but a few pumpkins will grow.

For now, there are four Hokkaido pumpkins here. They are not particularly large, but they are still holding on. @der-prophet and @hive-world-champ will undoubtedly have something to say about this.
I have two more large ones, which I showed in my previous post, intended for Halloween.