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The End

If I were a farmer, I have a feeling that this would be a pretty lean thanksgiving. All in all I produced 8 sad small pitiful looking beans, which I wouldn't want anywhere near my mouth. I think I could conclude that I failed in my expectations of bean growing. It required a lot more care than I thought it would, and who knew that leaving beans out in the below freezing nights, and not watering them for a week would harm them. They were weak.
But alas I am thankful that I didn't have to depend on my beans for food, income, or even a grade. I think the hardest part was giving them sunlight when the colder times approached. They are now withered stalks of browness hiding behind our trashcan.

Okay, they're definitely dead now

Ummm, they grew some beans, I picked them, cause I'm pretty sure my plants aren't going to grow no more, one of them might, but the rest... Practically all they're leaves have fallen off, it's too cold for them to go outside nowadays, and well they're dead now.
I convinced one of my roommates who has a big shiny camera to take pictures of my beans, even though it was only a couple days ago, they look a lot more dead now. I can't seem to get a direct link, so here is the website:

http://picasaweb.google.com/blorbx/07OctoberMisc

I finally got around to putting my beans on posts. I just stuck a stick of wood in the ground, and loosely tied each plant with blue embroidery thread. They seem much more stable now, and don't blow away in the wind. Though before I got around to doing this a couple of leaves had snapped off, and some flowers look like they're dying.

Here is a slightly older picture of one of the flowers.

I also have beans! I have about four or five right now, some are bigger than this one, because it is one of the smaller beans. It's exciting.

I don't think they like me anymore

I've left the beans outside at night lately. However, since we are going against nature in this class, and starting to grow beans on the cusp of winter, it frosts outside, so I have to bring them in at night. I haven't been bringing them in. I've barely been watering them. One plant has kind of fallen over (Balder), and the other two are kind of turning brown and don't look so good. I have so many other things on my mind (read os kernel), that I often forget about my beans. I'm not being good to them. I wonder if I was a farmer I'd still have this problem, would I have a job on the side? Would I work in a factory during the winter? I think at least, I'd be a lot more careful about my beans because they'd be part of my livelihood, like how much my family would eat and how much money I could bring home. I wonder too if I would have just a small garden of green been plants to harvest for familial consumption, or if I'd have lots and lots of beans, say an acre or more, and perhaps market them. I wonder how marketable green beans would be back then. When I think of market activities of a farmer if I'm thinking food, I think mainly in terms of wheat, perhaps corn, but never general fruits and vegetables. Oh well, hopefully my beans will flower soon.