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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.

I usually have them in the ground by now but we've had too much rain. I actually had the best luck with peas purely by accident. I...

I will be pulling up some 36" landscape fabric soon. Never thought about reusing it around the beans. Thanks for the idea!

Has nothing to do with my tiller width. I am using 48 inch wide weed barrier fabric this year. So I want to have a little open soil so I...

These are beans what William Woys Weaver the food historian wanted me to obtain for him. He tells me that Massey is a bush snap bean and...

I try not to rely on digital copies as I've had hard drives and devices fail and lost many, many things. I'm probably overly redundant...

I’ve used the same kind of labels and found them to be both waterproof and sun proof, and in a few cases I’ve used them for a few years...

Will the sun fade those tags to the point where they can't be read. Might not be a bad Idea to do a word processing file and type out...

The way this weather has been this month of April. One day like summer the next day like winter again. We could be in for a tricky May...