🍃 Massive Bean Harvest 🌱 More work than I expected 😎 Hoping to get some Beer for my labours. LOL

🍻 I helped Chevello pick a large patch of beans last week, but a few not quite ripe stayed on the vine. Yesterday Johana and I agreed to go picking again, I thought it was the final cleanup. Oh, Boy was I wrong!

We ended up in a completely different field about 4 times the size! This field needed way more than 3 souls to pick it, but we did get a large chunk done. Next trip I'm going to insist on some after pick cold beers 🍻. Chevello is Johana's Mothers boyfriend and we bought our land from him for a good price, But fair is fair.

The other patch I helped plant, fertilize and pick, But had no idea about this plot

🌾 Now this was the very field I blogged about a few months back Community rice harvest were maybe 30 people cleaned this field of rice with full-time bartenders followed by a big Lunch.
And now Chevello wants us to pick it with 3 people! Come on dude...Not without some food and Booze involved!

Chevello is in his 70's and suffers some health problems.
And helping out when and were we can is no problem.
Most of the youth these days have no interest in farming so planting and harvesting is done mostly by the old timers here.
Tractors are starting to become popular here for seeding and harvesting so the need for many hands is slowing going away.
11 years ago when I first came to Panama even the Sugarcane fields were harvested by hand $5 a day plus lunch!
Now all the big farms are harvested with Combine tractors and Big 2 trailer trucks, needing very few people to cut even many square kilometers of fields.
And to be honest we only worked for about 2 hours picking and got 4 big sacks of beans for the effort, Johana brought a radio so we had music to listen to.
I was rather surprised to see maybe 1 in 30 plants had these pretty flowers growing on then.
Flowers normaly signify the plant is ready to go to fruit and the flowers attract pollinators to the crops.
Maybe these plants are just a little less mature, but it looked like most of the beans were fully developed already and we only left the green pods on the plant to dry a little more first.

Here is what they look like on the plant.--->

The green ones are left for later and the brown to yellow pods are picked.

If you leave them on the plant too long, they will open and the beans drop to the ground.

So while you do have a fairly large window of time to harvest, best to make hay while the sun shines as they say.

And I have doing plenty of collecting hay in my day, working on my Uncles farm as a child. Some 30,000 bales has to be put on trailers then unloaded and placed in a big barn to feed 300 milking cows during the harsh Canadian winters.

As a final picture here is our 2 hour picking drying in the sun until the pods open and are separated.

Today is my Sunday Funday, Johana's Mom just got here and there is a Big festival in Ocu this weekend. they are going there dancing tonight. I and Johana would like to go ( it would make a good blog ) But I'm still needing to watch the budget a bit? So maybe just a walk down to the Local club for a few beer. Time will tell?

Today at 6:00 PM our time is the Team Steemit poker league tornament @spl and I don't want to let my team down by showing up too drunk to play well, or not showing up at all!

Only time will tell, But I'll drop a blog in about whatever happens....

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