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they are not native to north america but can spread or escape from gardens or be moved around by animals, wind, water, soil... as a two year plant they don't seem to persist in many areas unless there is some kind of soil disturbance and the native plants are not apex forest trees. that said...

just to make things clearer to me, this was the 2nd year you grew Purple Dove that you saw the seeds come out differently?

i see a range of browns there some of the lighter ones are toned towards what i would call olive and then the ones in the middle are darker.

smart puppie

Purple Dove bean outcrosses!!! :) :) :) it took me four years to get those to show up in any way that i wanted to see. i'm curious if you got a lot of seeds and kept them or discarded them or any description you might have of them? i have posted some pics of some outcrosses in last year's...

Russ, that looks very much like a possible parent of Monster... i can't quite tell from the color of your picture but from what i can tell it's similar to what came to me via those Dapple Gray seeds.

make sure to inspect it first. i made the mistake once of bringing in some compost without looking at it first and to make it even worse i had them mix it with some topsoil first. i didn't know how bad it was until i started watering the new gardens and started seeing all these bits of metal...

colors can fade, black is usually also cheapest in inks.

ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is very sour... :)

congrats to Buford and Momma and hoomans!

yes, that is the recommendation i've often read. it depends upon what i'm planting and how many seeds i have to plant. if i only have a few seeds i will give them more space so i'm not wasting seeds. when i have a lot of extra seeds i'll plant closer and then leave them. the only times i...

@Heliena most of the regular common beans will self-pollinate, it's the others that can be more of a challenge. for those i regularly grow i keep an eye out for crosses when i'm shelling and sorting so i don't get too much genetic wandering going on. i normally interplant intentionally to...

if i'd have opened the container, they were all tiny wasp-like creatures, they'd have been flying around before i could have eaten them.

if you do harvest them they may have bugs in them... how i learned this was when i harvested some here from along a trail in the park. i put the rose hips in a plastic film cannister and then set it on the shelf with a bunch of others and forgot about it for a bit. sometime later i was going...

the word is the herd... (sorry, first thought of the day :) it could be worse (cue disco duck)... )... .. .