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i was able to get out for a few hours of bean picking today. :) i'm hoping i got two of the network bean numbers improved but won't...

Interesting season. Our rain has been feast or famine all summer. July we had a 3 day round of 4 inches, 10 cm of rain. Since this past...

In Poland, this method is common during late spring frosts. Sprinklers are deliberately installed in orchards and vineyards for this...

I will post pictures later tonight if I get to it. No, the chickens will hatch for sure. The reason being it's a physics principle...

i'm not wanting to rain on your parade but i would also not count those chickens as hatched just yet. my experience is that such events...

I have had the most incredible seed saving journey in the last couple of days, in the literal sense. I've been keeping a fairly close...

wow, this weather forecast has gone from great to the opposite in only a couple of days. while the beans that are just developing might...

we visited a friend yesterday at her retirement home and while there i happened to have brought some beans to shell out while we were...

Of the beans which you mention as late, I’m also watching both Rose and Rio Zape anxiously. Other doubtful ones for me are Panzaredda...

Seed Savers Exchange/Heritage Farm ocassionally will list a bean that it has grown and will put in the description that the cultivar is...

Absolutely no dew this morning, so I went to work on the beans after I tended the chickens. Our area is classified as being in extreme...

Todays' collected pods, 'Brutt Buon' and 'Buenos Aires Rojo'.

So it looks like you have gotten two off type seeds from Avalon. The first person to grow Avalon did not mention any off types. So if a...

ok, my other post i just put up gives some explanations, but beyond the chances of crosses there are also things called mutations...

as an example search out the pictures i've posted here in TEG about a bean i called Monster. :) it came to me via Dapple Grey from...