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Woot! Last frost was this morning! All last week it was in the 80s and 90s (Fahrenheit), today it dipped below freezing. 🥶 But the forecast is smooth sailing for the rest of the month, so I can start planting early this weekend! I've already been harvesting dandelion greens and garlic...

Next up, Blue Shackamaxon. Very prolific and nicely timed. I checked a few early pods and saw blue, but those didn't dry down once I opened them. I still need to make them up and see how the color is in the pot. PA Dutch Cherry Pole was a disappointment. I had a few early pods, but they...

Starting my 2025 show and tell. I only just photographed them last week, so I could cook them up for my New Year's Good Luck Soup. Rattlesnake does well for me each year. It loves hot summers, so it was a little disappointed this year. But it keeps producing up to the frost. The jar in the...

The second one looks like the reversed colors, instead of different genetics.

Atypical weather this summer. None of our stinking hot 100+ degrees with heat indexes even higher. We had cool weather with the haze from the wildfires. Harvesting has started on PA Dutch Cherry, Rattlesnake and Grandma Bechtel's in earnest. A sequence of foggy, rainy days has some...

Noooo, bee, no!

I had 8 Taylor Dwarf Horticultural plants produce this year. Not bad given how old the seed was. One of the plants produced a lot of inverses. I half thought it was a different plant, until I found some regular ones in one of the pods. This is on a 7 inch plate. Even in the high heat and...

My Hatch chilis taste about the same as the canned ones. Usually they aren't as hot as I'd like, but I add a Thai pepper or two and that fixes that.

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 of sunny weather. It has been rained nearly every day this month. Some of the Hopi purple string beans are semi-runners, those are flowering well. The...

My pole beans are that are entwining around the poles are taking off. The others are just hanging out. It has been chilly the past week. I found an article on lima beans https://www.nal.usda.gov/collections/stories/lima-beans. The person who linked it pulled out this interesting fact "The...

I'm free of frosts, but the ground temperature is still a bit lower than I'd like. I should be ready to start planting out this weekend. I start my beans inside and transplant as the critters like to dig up beans to eat. I am putting in a lot of Roughwood beans as those are "local" to me...

I've been rattled by rumors of lay offs and relocations since harvest. Currently, our group seems safe until the fall, so I've been getting the garden ready. Granted, we're swinging wildly between 80s and 30s F. We just had a freeze. But May is fast approaching and I've put in more raised...

Had the bean-wilting frost yesterday. Only the yellow eyes laughed it off, and that bush was blooming over the weekend. I let it be, because it makes me happy in a nearly empty garden. The rest of the beans were cut off to dry already, and I had just put them in the garage to protect from...

Hi ho, new poster. I've been lurking for awhile. Relatively new bean grower, as I had to finally admit defeat and put in raised beds. Too many tree roots (three varieties that spread by runners). I'm in the part of Maryland that basically has two growing seasons - stinking hot and humid...