Take A Chance On Beans

There are two large piles of topsoil around the house site that were put aside when my house site was cut.  Yesterday I found myself looking at them calculating all the different uses it will have in the years ahead.  One immediate use is to fill the raised garden beds I transported here from my old house, but this will take only a small amount of soil and as you can see below, there is tonnes of it here - a great problem to have!

So this still leaves quite a bit of soil with years to go until I need it for any sort of garden landscaping - so I'm thinking, is there anything else I could it for immediately?

Then beans came to mind ... in fact, Lazy Housewife Beans.

Now before I receive any nasty messages on being a sexist, please know that I didn't give these heirloom beans their name.  In fact, my friends and I have resorted to try and make them a little more socially acceptable and call them Lazy Houseperson Beans. :)

It is a very heavy cropping stringless climbing bean that dates back as far as 1882.    It took me a couple of years to learn how to make the best use of its harvest and that was to pick some of the beans early when they are sweet to use in soups and stir fry's, then leave the rest to grow to full size for shelling.  There is a wonderful Macedonian bean soup I love to make with Lazy Houseperson beans - I look forward to it every summer.

I have quite an oversupply of beans to plant this year and when I put the mound of soil with the beans together in my mind, I thought why not plant the mounds with some beans and see what happens?

I dug lots of little holes for the beans around a small area of the mound and then planted in a few of the seeds.

I don't really have any expectations.  I don't plan on watering them much, and there is a lot of grass amongst them, add to that no protection from rabbits and wombats - I really haven't given them much of a chance.  But why not try?  Who knows what could happen.