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My new perennial pansies! Love these colors. I really hope it's true that they'll survive winter here. I underplanted my roses with...

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

Today, hubs sorted through garden aids as in plastic , twine, posts, grow bags, etc and cleared out an 8x16 foot space that is now ready...

We once moved into a house that someone apparently had a garden in the backyard previously and when I started turning the soil to prep...

Heirloom Bean Addicts Anonymous

Hello! Just discovered this forum recently after reading about it on flowerbug's Anthive blog. I've been planning a slightly larger...

I discovered this week that my Devil's claw plants grow to 4 or 5 feet wide. 🫣 This means I'll have to throw some out, because that is...

we're still having to run the heat and it is June 1st! two more nights of cool enough weather and then the forecast goes up to 81F for...

I put my first and only beans straight into the ground today, the Sakaguchi Kang Wong runner bean seeds. I overplanted just in case...

Got bee stung right beside my eye/eybrow to the side about an inch and it would have been worse. Meanwhile it's swelling and expect eye...

was able to hunt the groundhog today and so i hope that was the one using the burrow that i'd been trying to trap for a while, but no...

Good points Steve. I'm considering placing some boards as traps, to keep the numbers down. In addition to young bean seedlings, Sweet...

Slugs are a special problem in the hoop house every Spring. To a much lesser extent, they also show up in the greenhouse – probably...

Looking back at your photos, your roottrainers are definitely not the same as the version which has been sold under that name in UK...

yes, that would be very frustrating.