welcome to TEG from mid-Michigan. :)
i've found myself that it is much easier to have larger areas than many smaller areas to keep up. each edge and pathway is more work. i also like the freedom to rearrange the layouts in a larger space where in comparison to a smaller garden bed you may...
I wonder if it may be that they don't have as many native bees that will cross beans in Europe but I don't know for sure if that is what is going on? :)
yes, @Blue-Jay i have seen some of those variations. :) i'm not growing out VBE that often any more though now but if i see that color/pattern come up i'll save them for you.
yes, i see they've posted that for us now - hard freeze for tonight, and chance of frost for tomorrow night too. we just skirted frost here last night.
once in a while when i get up and if Mom is awake but laying in bed i'll go and jump on her bed and bounce up and down. and then give her a kiss and tell her i love her. she'll fake scream. it's funny. :)
in checking out the small tornado damage and possible path it may have been slightly to the north of us and skirted us or may have even been over us but not formed enough. i'm certainly not an expert in reading radar tornado signatures and how they form...
to us it was a little hail, some rain...