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Piet Special has yielded a good number of beans from somewhat immature pods. Those in the most mature pods were damaged by recent rains so I am harvesting them a bit before they dry. There should be plenty left for me too to grow next year. However, I think this bean might prefer a drier summer...

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That's how my deep south grandmother always pronounced pecan baymule. :) So that's how my family says it here in northern VA.

Piet Special has a solid green pod about 3/4 to 1 inch wide and 6-9 inches long. Don't know the average seed count; I'll get that later in the season. Pod shape looks like Romano. So far so good.

My browser is not loading the descriptions, and some of the page formatting is odd, but readable. I like the idea of the new site. Hoping to get at least 2 of the four varieties I grew back to you in a few months.

What version of IE are you using? Apparently I am on IE 11 and have no trouble seeing the new site, however with the approach of Microsoft's new Spartan browser, IE will largely die out.

Well . . . I'm actually not a big onion fan and will not eat them raw, period. If they are chopped finely or pureed they make a nice addition to the flavor of a dish, but I don't even like they cooked whole. For flavor comparisons you may want to ask a less biased judge than me. But they did do...

Haven't tried shallots before so I'm not sure how they compare in terms of flavor or size.

I got my yellow onions from an eBay seller last fall and planted half then and half in spring. A couple of them never came up, oddly they were spring planted ones, but most did. They were harvested when I got home from work today and noticed that I could not see them. Most were being pushed down...

Poking holes in everyone else's garbage cans was favored by the resident looney where I grew up. My current neighborhood is on the cusp of trashy and okay so nobody bothers me about anything out of place for a few days.

My seed is from my original source. There have been no inputs since it was purchased. However, since I am not the only person growing the corn and not essential for its survival as a variety I suppose it doesn't matter much. :/

I was wrong. All this horrible, basement-flooding rain, and the corn it head height. The Delwen blue is short still, somewhere between 6 and 12 inches.

The Bloody Butcher corn is making excellent progress. Most plants are chest height on me or higher and I'm 5'10". I don't have an exact count on live plants, but at two ears each I should have plenty to replenish my old seed. Must remember to keep the cats in the garden when the corn is...

Piet could put Kentucky Wonder to shame in terms of its vines. When the rains stop I'll see if the beans hide like the flowers on Solwezi.

Piet Special is making pods! Some are almost snap sized. Solwezi is still hanging out.

I used one once and hated it. The tines were forever clogging up.

I started late this Spring. I usually dilute a small amount of urine in a 1 gallon container full of water. So far no signs of plant stress, but I don't know if it is helping much either.

Bean Update: Piet Special is somewhere between 6 and 7 feet tall, still growing, and has long since outrun the t-post it was trained on. Additional vines from the base and along the main vine are spreading out and trying to get a grip on the trellises nearby (Galante longbean, Hyacinth bean...

I'm fairly happy, lets call it an 8. The peas are all blooming freely and the blue podded one is making a lot of pods. The pole beans are climbing except for three I planted in late May, and they are catching up fast. The bush beans are also pretending to climb which is vexing in the extreme...