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Starting my 2025 show and tell. I only just photographed them last week, so I could cook them up for my New Year's Good Luck Soup...

is that area really dry or facing west? if so try to set up some small piles of detritus and keep them slightly moist and shaded somehow.

Oh, that's an interesting idea! I need to clear out some brushy areas of the yard anyways, so I will definitely give that a try. The...

That could very well be the case, and I've just been growing them long enough that I've acclimated them to my area somewhat. :D Now...

I've had some major setbacks in the past month but finally posted my bean show in the 2025 thread. I'm currently in limbo on the 2026...

i got sidetracked and forgot to answer your questions and ... see if you can find a nearby woodland with good dark tree litter and...

sure has! good to hear from you. :)

... i've been wondering how you were doing there, glad to hear from you and hoping the setbacks will be resolved.

That is really neat looking. First time I've ever seen pink pods on a pole bean like this.

This is the only one I can find at the moment.

Oh @saritabee so nice to hear from you again. I wonder what the trick is to growing Frost. I planted 16 seeds this year and they all...

Wow ! Love the bean show. Now WB-PKT 45.1 has a name and how perfect of a name is that, Onyx !! The beans are just beautiful. So nice...

Wren's Egg was the first dry bush bean to mature. Larger than the average dry bean and a decent harvest considering I lost two of the...

I had three reasons for choosing Schwarze Witwe. One was the German origin, another was the translation of the name (black widow) and...

Pinktip was a bit of a mystery as the seed return envelope was labeled Pinktip Greasy and that's how I labeled it. Pods and seed were...