My mom used to make a huge pot of green beans with bacon rind in for flavoring. She'd let it simmer most of the afternoon. YUM! Brings back wonderful memories.
Thanks to our neighbor, my garden is no more this year. She sprayed something on it and everything is dead. It had weathered the heat 113 highest & drought here this summer. She also got some flowers in my front flower garden. We do have a fence but that never stops her if she wants kill it.