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Well, I plucked up the courage and planted my extras tonight. This year I had 2 bean sets per variety, so if something happened to one...

the Purple Dove beans that sprouted early in the tomato patch are almost flowering. these are random beans that fell on the ground...

@heirloomgal I started most of my pole beans in 8.5 oz styrofoam cups. When introducing all the pole beans to the sun little by little...

I'm growing Juanita Smith this year and I'm shocked at how delicate the plants are! Can anyone confirm if this is an exceptionally...

Very nice @Bluejay! 😍 I was going to ask how your garden was going! Your transplants all look really beautiful. Did you seed all the...

I still have a few pole varieties to transplant but I'm happy to say I have 80% of the Network beans in the ground. Ditched my planting...

Also planted 12 varieties of semi runners and seeded a few pole beans. Lately I've been growing Sacre Bleu every year. People keep...

All my offsites and backyard and around my house are all planted and up and growing. All the pole beans were a lot of work putting them...

Bush beans! So glad I decided to still do transplants with them, I was tempted to direct seed this year. Got all the poles in now too...

finished planting the network beans in a 2nd garden so there is diversity in locations. a few seeds kept back for each of them just in...

So I changed course a little with the bean plans, and decided to put the bush bean transplants in today. I'll be so busy tomorrow doing...

All the 2025 network beans are up and growing, and now I wait until Friday to plant them in the gardens. Tomorrow night the temps go to...

i planted some of each packet of the network beans here today and filled the rest of the garden up with some bulk beans (Purple Dove and...

i was very happy today to finally get back to bean planting and so i was able to finish up planting one of the gardens by selecting a...

Yes, it definitely does. Seedlings with 4" long roots are less vulnerable to high temperatures that can kind of bake the top couple of...