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All the pods I've shelled so far, as well as all the dried garden plants, got wood chipper-ed and I spread the crumbs across the beds...

There are more rats almost everywhere than you realize. If you are seeing lots of holes then there are more than just two rats. Seeing...

I am just loving this new bean, Siebenbürgen-Kärnten! It's looking pink right now, but I can see it's color shifting quickly to a...

The 2025 beans are nearly all fully dry, just waiting on a small number of stragglers, some of the later formed runner beans in...

The End Of A Bean Season The Vines are now all bare The Supports Are Now Bare Without Vines...

there are certain beans here that are more troubled by it than others. my advice is to pick the dry bean pods as soon as they are ready...

Wondering about bush dry beans that might show some resistance or tolerance to white mold (Sclerotinia). I really have a problem many...

Has anyone had good production out of the Andikove? I have harvested the last and not a single pod produced more than three beans, and a...

I agree with @flowerbug: "i think if you have done the work to stabilize the bean then it is ok to give it a name yourself and to be...

@Oxford, Schneebohne and Mongeta de la Neu are two different beans. I'm sure of this because I have seeds from both and can compare them.

When I grew True Red Cranberry two years ago, I also had this problem. Not all the seeds colored properly. It was similar with the Low's...

Today I picked a pound .45 kilo of green beans. My south flowerbed this year contained 5 pole snap bean varieties. 13 poles with 4 beans...

I got like two "varieties" of Sea Barb/ Meerbarbe. The ones that look like usual and the late ones are smaller and have a slightly...

Very very impressive! Is that the 'Mongeta de la Neu' (English: Snow Bean, German: Schneebohne) from Catalonia/ Spain? I have got some...

Took a photo of both Schneebohne poles today. I was impressed.