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I'm free of frosts, but the ground temperature is still a bit lower than I'd like. I should be ready to start planting out this weekend...

Welcome @SusanneinHastings. Which Hastings might that be? We have a Hastings here in England but I’m guessing there might be one or two...

hello! I have just joined up after reading through this and the 2024 bean thread. I will be growing out a couple of beans too. It is...

likely the weight because they also probably want to make sure someone isn't having drugs sent to them... plus there is a good policy...

I’m beginning to understand why England is associated with pea growing and feel humbly grateful for our comparatively mild winters and...

This is a first & I'm super shocked. They actually opened my package. Thank goodness they still sent it along and I got it alright...

I’m jealous! We have winter temps down to -43C (although that is only for a night or two) and typically weeks of -30C with less than 2...

We have frosts down to -8 but not often and not for days on end. I was assuming that by March peas would be able to survive your...

we can have quite cold snaps (-30C or worse at times). a few days ago we were at about -3C. i hope now we're past that. i don't plant...

you're in a place with much milder winters than what we get here. i do have pretty good luck growing Green Beauty peas into August here...

Peas are a cool weather crop though. They don’t like summer heat as they’re prone to mildew when it gets hot and dry. I grow them as an...

These are not all the beans I have to grow, but they're a fun representation of what I received recently.

Some more recent bean mail. This is a beautiful bean I ran across about two weeks ago. From a grower in Pescadaro, California. The...

my method is to give orders (that others laugh at me is a whole different issue :) )... yesterday i finished going through some more...

Same. Too early and they just stall, later planted ones will often do better because they never got that interruption in growth.