2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family

Rillowen said:
Beans are in the ground! I have scarlet emperor runners, rattlesnake pole, the oh so famous bluejay and the off shoot of the pink bush bean that has yet to be named. (I forgot the name of its maternal plant, sorry, but I have it written down!)
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Where do you live/garden? Please put That with your avatar so that we know what zone, etc. you are talking about.
THANKS! :hugs
 
Rillowen said:
Hmm, I tried sprouting some and they never came up. I set it up with a bottom water tray for wicking, do you think they got too wet? 🤔
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Last year I tried something different. School ordered tons of berries/soft fruits as an Easter treat for the kids and it was our job to divide those berries into fruit cups and of course I grabbed the clamshell containers to use as mini greenhouses. Used the smaller ones along with a square of damp paper towel on the bottom to sprout the beans that didn't get started in pots. Put a label inside the clamshell so it wouldn't get separated from the beans. I could stack them up in the greenhouse and the clamshells had vent holes, which allowed air circulation. One thing to note is that I did have a few seeds that hadn't yet sprouted by planting time but put them in the ground too and the majority of them grew as well.

I believe our last frost date is only a day or two away but temps have dropped into the lower 30s the last two nights and predicted to do so at least another night. In 2020 we had snow on April 28th, which was a rarity but something that could easily happen now given the overnight temps. I haven't yet started or pre-sprouted any beans.
 
flowerbug said:
wow, hope you can both get through these things
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flowerbug said:
wow, hope you can both get through these things now!
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Thank you. My husband is doing well now. He's back to work and a bit aggravated that he can't do what he once did. However he did spend a day helping me finish the fence around the bigger garden last week and that was quite an accomplishment for both of us.

As for me, my GP prescribed a round of steroids in an attempt to reduce some of the swelling around my Achilles tendon and it helped enough that I was able to get the majority of the garden ready for planting. Currently waiting on X-ray results and fingers crossed I can start PT soon.
 
ruralmamma said:
Last year I tried something different. School ordered tons of berries/soft fruits as an Easter treat for the kids and it was our job to divide those berries into fruit cups and of course I grabbed the clamshell containers to use as mini greenhouses. Used the smaller ones along with a square of damp paper towel on the bottom to sprout the beans that didn't get started in pots. Put a label inside the clamshell so it wouldn't get separated from the beans. I could stack them up in the greenhouse and the clamshells had vent holes, which allowed air circulation. One thing to note is that I did have a few seeds that hadn't yet sprouted by planting time but put them in the ground too and the majority of them grew as well.

I believe our last frost date is only a day or two away but temps have dropped into the lower 30s the last two nights and predicted to do so at least another night. In 2020 we had snow on April 28th, which was a rarity but something that could easily happen now given the overnight temps. I haven't yet started or pre-sprouted any beans.
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Yes that's similar to what I did. I saved apple sauce cups, cut holes in the bottom for drainage, and put compost in. Then set the cups in a shallow tray of water. Very low success rate, on everything I tried that way. Maybe putting a second cup over the top to slow down evaporation would help. The yogurt cups I tried the same way had excellent success!
 
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