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The design of the Winstrip trays is to maximize air pruning of the roots so the "waste" spaces around each cell is to get more air to...

Interesting, but they seem to have a lot of wasted space - or am I misunderstanding something? And having looked up tobacco float...

Found a weirdo. These are probably lucky.

Interesting. Does it have an advantage for the seedlings, when their little roots are so strictly led downwards?

I haven't personally used these, but many veg farmers in the Northeast US are switching to them seems like. I've always used tobacco...

Too bad they are expensive and availability is scarce...

After two weeks in the root trainers several types of pole beans were large enough to plant out. Pretty amazing 4" long roots, with...

These may be the more useful purchase, if they can be found outside of the UK...

yes 100 times. :) they do cook faster since they are still wet... if you have a bean that falls out of the shell rather easy that...

I use Dolloff as a dry bean, but it is supposedly very good as a shelly. I've never in my life cooked shelly beans, which is probably...

An interesting post. I’m intrigued by these varieties with Lima in the name. There’s a discussion in Beans of New York to the effect...

So the towering challenge to full-day sunlight for my pole beans has finally been defeated. And it feels magnificent. Didn't measure...

Ok, checked Seeds of Plenty and that doesn't look like a P. vulgaris bean so I don't think that's it.