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where are you located (roughly)? yes, that's about how to do it, with a cone of dirt that you put the crown on top and then the roots out around. generally you do not want the crown to be too far above the level of the dirt but also not buried too far down. watering them in after planting and...

i hope you did some reading up first or knew how to do that without poisoning yourself?! it is certainly one of those things that if you just went into it and drank everything that came out you'd be in for some trouble eventually...

almost everything that can be grown has been used to make alcohol or fermented as food for animals.

also @digitS' it is good to remember that wine has often a good byproduct in vinegar which is a good preservative and cleaner. any crop that has more than one use is valueable. grape seed oil is also useful as are grape leaves... raisins, fresh eating grapes.

it has been a long time since i last enjoyed a good dark beer. after my old friend passed away i no longer had my once in a while beer and bratwurst (and saurkraut!) buddy to visit a few times a year.

roasted carrots are really yummy. :)

think of all the weeding we'd not be doing if they'd just stuck to hunting and gathering...

it sounded like the same place you described and was the same place as the other video posted.

me either. Dr. digitS' needs something other than a Whyte font there...

haha, i'm up and then going to try to get a nap in while i can...

i've usually had reasonable results from growing them but like many other larger beans they don't really like it here when it gets hot out here and if i don't keep enough water on them or they get too much rain all at once the pods will not fill well developed beans. i normally grow a few...

thank you! i don't even need to bring it up since it is etched in my brain. :) i will be falling asleep with its goings on.

wow! @heirloomgal so nice to see! :)

haha, when i get a chance i'll include some in a pic so you see what they look like (not purty).

here are some beans from today's shelling out. i love the color of these but you can't really see it very well in this picture, there's some green and blue in that gray... the white beans with the pattern were added for some contrast, but also because they're interesting too. i did plant...