Today was the first real spring harvest in my Houston vegetable garden; Derby green beans and Contessa onions. (Shown below). My best gardening advice for Houston beans is plant the Derby variety. They are very productive, continue producing for a long time and are tasty. I try other varieties from time to time and am always disappointed. the first picking yielded 1 3/4 pounds of beans from 30 square feet of garden. Contessa onions are a white 1015 type and are very sweet and juicy. The green beans were planted in late February and the onions in mid-December (ordered from Dixondale) Onions are ready for harvest when the stems bend over. The ones shown below are not quite ready. I picked off the seed shoots when they appeared a couple of weeks ago.
