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it will be a challenge to get this last garden weeded and planted soon, but as it is outside the fence it may all get eaten by deer...

We are going to hit 100 degrees this weekend (at least on the feels like scale.) And during the heat wave, we will actually have a week...

yeah, we're gonna bake this week here too Sat-Wed...

All the direct-seeded beans are up and doing great. I've been using castor oil to deter voles and haven't seen any signs of them...

Well, I plucked up the courage and planted my extras tonight. This year I had 2 bean sets per variety, so if something happened to one...

Yesterday I planted out 3 week old seedlings of Koronis Purple, a bush dry bean. The area had layer of Ginko leaf mulch, which I...

Also planted 12 varieties of semi runners and seeded a few pole beans. Lately I've been growing Sacre Bleu every year. People keep...

Bush beans! So glad I decided to still do transplants with them, I was tempted to direct seed this year. Got all the poles in now too...

the Purple Dove beans that sprouted early in the tomato patch are almost flowering. these are random beans that fell on the ground...

@heirloomgal I started most of my pole beans in 8.5 oz styrofoam cups. When introducing all the pole beans to the sun little by little...

I still have a few pole varieties to transplant but I'm happy to say I have 80% of the Network beans in the ground. Ditched my planting...

finished planting the network beans in a 2nd garden so there is diversity in locations. a few seeds kept back for each of them just in...

So I changed course a little with the bean plans, and decided to put the bush bean transplants in today. I'll be so busy tomorrow doing...

All the 2025 network beans are up and growing, and now I wait until Friday to plant them in the gardens. Tomorrow night the temps go to...

i planted some of each packet of the network beans here today and filled the rest of the garden up with some bulk beans (Purple Dove and...