Thanks - I'm pretty proud The beds were made from scrap boards I had at hand. Some of them are cedar, I think the others are oak and pine. The man that owned this house before me left quite a bit of nice lumber. I designed the garden based on the lumber I had. I may have to actually buy some next year when I expand. The unhealthy plants aren't in the pictures - notice the tee-pee with nothing on it? I put in sweet peas that produced 2- 3 peas each and then died. Bush beans havent done well for me either - lots of insect damage, there has been some fruit production, but the plants are about the same size as when I put them in. And yes T-Bird, Carmen Miranda was my first association so I had to include the pic.

I live in the Chicago area, zone 5, and, for me, it was almost the same as for every other damn pepper, including bell peppers, about 5 months in the ground and 4 months in pots. See http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3327083/happy-with-an-amazon-seller?n=13 I should mention that the plants were started in a greenhouse in early April and moved outdoors around June 1.

Hi growlove and welcome to the forum. Your bean looks to be just about the right size for picking. Do you plan to do any canning or other forms of food preservation with your harvest? That is the focus of this particular forum - food preservation. For example, green beans can be frozen or canned, pickled or dehydrated. But you'll meet many new gardeners posting about their experiences over on the Vegetable Gardening forum here. Be sure to check it out. Vegetable Gardening forum Since you are growing in containers check out the Container gardening forum too. Also in case you didn't know, you can go to your Profile page here and create your own idea book - "My First garden" - with all your photos right in one place. Dave

Here's an update to this post. Limequat didn't do very well indoors Winter 2017... Mostly because it was in the same pot as dying Meyer. Separated plants in Spring 2018...damaged some of the roots separating the limequat... And than I re-potted to a massive pot which was a mistake. It did well in the Spring/Summer 2018... Put out some growth, bloomed and held onto 3 fruits. By Fall/Winter I brought the limequat in again... It kept ripening the fruit but began losing leaves and branches dying again... The good new is it managed to ripen the fruit... I already had the smaller limequat when it fell off earlier this week. It was tasty so I'm excited for these 2 bigger limequats. Once I harvest these fruits, I'll throw the plant out and try again with a new limequat... Hopefully I can be more successful with my experience now....