Jeffery has taken it upon himself to stain our picnic table, and I couldn’t be more pleased or surprised with his choice: black! I love it. Even though the season is winding down (sadface) there is still some spectacular color in the garden. For the second year now, I grew this yellow french fillet bean. And even though I got more than I did last year, it was still only a handful, not nearly enough to fulfill my vision of jars packed with these beautiful yellow pickled beans. Next year I will plant at least twice as many.

Also shown is a yellow sage, which is just wonderful. I don’t cook much with sage until about this time of year, with all of the pumpkin soups and roasted birds and such. The other herb shown is an oregano, the variety I can’t remember but it’s pretty safe to assume it has “yellow” in it’s name. I seriously love this, it’s so pretty and quite compact compared to my other oreganos. I’ve been drying as much of my herbs as I can, usually I am lazy and put it off until it’s too late. I have to be on top of my game if I want to be a successful urban farmer. No more being lazy!