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Just sent my requests for this year and am giddy with excitement! Excited that some of my previous choices are on the priority list too!

@Blue-Jay, I have seeds ready to go out to you tomorrow. Would you or anyone else also be interested in seeds originally acquired from the USDA seed bank? One is Bhatmash which was a good producer but took 90 days to flower which is a little too long for my growing season as I was fighting...

While we haven't had a postal strike, our little post office has been "temporarily closed" for several months pending a new location. A post office eleven miles in the opposite direction I usually travel handles our mail and is only open for a few hours a day so definitely not convenient. To...

I preordered a catalog a few months ago and I had to smile when I saw Purple Dove listed as it's been mentioned many times here. Adventist Pole bean is on my list as well.

I always go to the bean section first and have noticed the same. The Baker Creek Whole Seed Catalog (paid version) and online lists more varieties but only a couple that I don't have and which pique my interest. I took an interest in Appalachian beans after realizing our family variety...

No. I didn't obtain them from the Network but just happened to be a variety I was trying this year. It produced very well this year, so I have plenty.

I have some Mbombo seed for you too if you'd like it.

We had our first snow of the season Thursday and it left us with 8" of the white stuff. Found another tray of beans to shell but otherwise bean seed is packaged, labeled and waiting to grow again next year. I'm on some forced downtime due to an ankle injury and using that time to peruse seed...

With the exception of one tray of drying pods, I sorted and labeled all my bean seed from this season yesterday. From one Appalachian grex I picked out three varieties I want to grow separately and from another mix I picked out ten varieties to experiment with. At the most I saved 20 seeds but...

I probably let it go a little too long the way it is. It has definitely slowed me down. I managed to plant a bed of garlic yesterday and kept moving a small stool around with me instead of kneeling down as I usually do. Still 10 days before my appointment with the specialist, so trying to...

Well ... technically my house sits where the old garden used to be. We created a massive new garden about twenty years ago that proved to be a headache as it was at least 1,000' away from the house and our work schedules didn't allow enough time to tend to it. In 2020 I had two 4x8' beds in...

More of an orange red but really beautiful as they started blooming as the cutshorts were finished. I started some other varieties but rabbits kept them mowed down.

Our season is practically over. Happy to say I did manage to get some mature pods off of the one that took months to bloom and pulled pods off of the black coat runners beans in hopes that I'll get some viable seed. I'll be planting garlic and mulching the beds as I can but I neglected a...

I cut the vines of the last dry bean mix yesterday and currently I just have the USDA bean that has taken all season and four varieties on my cattle panel arches that are mostly for fresh eating and preserving. Most of the dried seed is packaged up except for a few of the late varieties. My...

I'm at the halfway point in my life. Part of me is furious that it took so long for me to ditch the uninspiring "real job" and follow my dreams. The other part is glad that I can still function and am keep up with the child I had in my forties. The main issue for me is that my mind...

We've been getting some rain and I'm trying to harvest between showers and as often as possible. I'm using my seed-starting setup as a drying rack and taking full advantage of the small fan I use to circulate air around seedling to assist in drying pods. One variety pulled from the garden and...

I immediately planted the garlic bed after harvesting with a dry bean landrace and Corbaci peppers. Both have done phenomenal! I'm constantly harvesting the peppers to keep the plants upright and rough estimate is 40+ peppers per plant and they're still blooming. The bean mix is mostly...

Yesterday was a bit of a scramble. Rain finally forecasted so pulled any pods that were close to being dry and a few that I felt would be dry in a day or two. Rain total so far: a few sprinkles. :confused:

The trial is actually through SeedLinked and all seem to be home gardener friendly. They provide a selection of trials early to mid-winter available for the following year and I simply choose the ones I'm most interested in. So basically an organization or individual sets everything up, I...

It's part of the USDA collection. I've participated in several trials the last few years but this is the first time beans have been offered and my first time with USDA sourced beans as it's usually SSE or similar organizations. Five out of seven seeds germinated and it's been an overachiever...