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Quick update. Botosani Cyclops and Passage to India are both setting pods. Nothing noticed yet on the two tepary beans. Interesting to note that the growth habit on two of the Passage to India plants is bush, not pole. I'll be watching the seeds to see if they differ from the original seed.

The garlic, shallot and potato onion flower heads are beautiful. I might get a lot of seed if things work out. I've even got 4 leeks from last year who want to join in. Hoping I don't have to scrap all of it.

I just realized that my garlic,babington leeks, and some neighboring onions are looking yellow. My mind immediately went to one place. Please look at these pics and let me know, do I have aster yellows in my garden?

For your viewing pleasure, representative seedlings of the following: Passage to India, Orange Speckled Paiute Tepary, Botosani Cyclop, and Large Chocolate Tepary Left to right top to bottom on the pictures apparently. They're so cute at this age! I've reexamined the rows and all of the...

One or two may have been dug up by squirrles, two snapped in today's rain. The rest are coming up or up. I'll have to fill in a couple of the teparies and possibly bomba with new seeds. Just have to sit back and wait for beans. :)

It's been about a week and I'm waiting on signs of germination. Seeds that overwintered in my garden (tomatoes, beans and longbeans) are coming up, so hopefully my charges will appear soon.

Yesterday was the first day in a while that the rain let up and I was finally free to get work done. I got about 40 T-posts set in my main garden and have used one 25 foot roll of chicken wire already (I need to buy a third roll as the second will not be enough to finish) to support viney stuff...

Hi @Bluejay77 Yes, the beans came a long time back and I am just waiting for warmer weather. The recent change from unseasonably hot to unseasonably frigid has scrambled my gardening plans. The trial potato patch is barely holding on, though the potato onions are happy enough. :) Still, beans...

Adam reporting in. I spoke to Russ and requested the following beans from the Easy Bean Network page in late 2015 for grow out this year: Large Chocolate Tepary - unk Orange Speckled Paiute Tepary - 2013 Passage to India Pole - ? Botosani Cyclops - ? I think I finally was able to confirm was a...

I didn't cure the potato onions very well and lost a lot to rot, but saved enough to replant a very large bed. I got Green Mountain from the same eBay seller, and red and grey shallots and white multiplier from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. They went straight into the ground once I got the...

I'd be willing to try some of the outcrosses, but for the lack of space in my garden beds. Maybe in 2017.

It could have been my conditions (last year alternated floods and drought in northern VA), but I found Solwezi to be slow to set pods for me. Once it set them of course it made plenty. I would not recommend it for growing in a really short season area, though your year might be long enough for it..

The city has not yet hit the culdesac streets. Mine got one pass late Friday and is now over a foot deep in snow. The cross street behind my house is at least partially cleared, but I last saw a plow yesterday around lunch time.

26-28 inches in my yard where I can reach to measure it. Which means the deck. :) I'm well buried.

Close to 4 inches where I live so far. Overnight and through till Sunday morning should be fun. So far this is just powder, not heavy snow. I really don't want to lose power, but I have a fireplace insert and can keep the pipes from freezing if I do lose power.

Thanks @Ridgerunner ! My setup looks a lot like the one in the article, just with a many more rough edges, glue slops, and crooked holes for bolts. :D One set of lights is on a table in the outside southeast corner by the basement back door (which is seldom used). The second set of lights is...

I finally went ahead and built stands for two shop lights I bought 4 years ago. Originally I wanted to use them in a room with poor lighting, but never unpackaged them. Last year I thought I could make them into a grow light setup . . . but never got around to it. Since I was off work this week...

I believe I joined in January or February.

When will SSE send reminders for 2016 membership? I got a request for donations last month, but I don't think it's quite the same thing. I really, REALLY want the hard copy catalog. :)

I have three peace lilies: one for my grandmother's passing, one for my father's passing this past winter, and one from a plant in the office I repotted and snatched a cutting from. They are supposed to represent innocence and rebirth.