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yeah, you definitely want to get the right kind, i've seen it called Mother of Thyme, Creeping Mother of Thyme or Coccineus Thyme but i would not buy any until i saw it flowering to make sure it is the right color. there's a lot of variations out there and the names don't seem to be used...

no sprays are used here for bugs. the birds, other animals, spiders, etc. all get their shot at eating what they can find. once in a while if i'm feeling really peevish i can go out and squish JBs by hand, but i don't really have that kind of time these days so not much of that is going on -...

thank you, but no thank you. :) i don't normally grow pole beans and am trying to avoid getting more unless there's some trait i'm after i can't get any other way. i need to rehome a few that have some potential as it is. :) only one new one will get a chance next season. Yed i refreshed...

i would like to know, but so far the most information i've got is that Alan Kapuler may have gotten some of RL's records but Alan passed away in 2023. PD is bush to semi-runner, i currently have one growing up over a tomato plant that may be an outcross. i've grown all RL purple beans with...

the acidity is what helps keep it safe in storage or canning. if you won't be canning it and freezing it instead or eating right away that factor may not be important to you...

i recall quail being used for this sort of thing. i've never kept quail or chickens to know for sure. we normally do not have ticks here often but with the deer wandering through at times we've had them show up. i haven't seen any this year so far.

you can discourage them by using hardware cloth a few feet high around the area you want to protect the most. if they can't easily get to it they may go someplace else. sure it will not prevent them from getting in there entirely but it may help. if you want complete protection you'd have to...

RL beans... Purple Duke not in circulation from what i'm seeing with a casual search. Purple Queen in circulation (seeds do not look similar enough to PD to be any indication). Royalty Purple Pod in circulation (pretty much indistinguishable from Purple Queen seeds do not look similar...

if you do this could you please put a ruler of some kind in the picture for a scale reference? :) otherwise the pictures already posted have been a help. thank you either way. :)

i'll look into those, thanks Russ. :)

thank you! yes, helpful. that yellow bit around the eye is interesting. :)

i first saw those happen in some Cranberry beans, it's commonly called reversing or a reversal, but the geneticists probably have a different name for it. it's when the background color switches with the foreground. i've seen it several times since and sometimes it is the whole pod that...

yes, ingredients have elemental sulfur and gypsum. so you're good to go. :)

welcome to TEG from mid-Michigan. :)

do you ever use a bit of sulfur powder?

glad to see you back! :)

if you do grow outs for a few years you'll be able to see if the bean is stable or not and if it is unique and interesting enough to share with others. :) my experience is that you won't know until you do it and once you do it you may find yourself on some interesting journeys...

certainly, i've never been able to memorize well so i get bits and pieces but the details are rather beyond me. life is beautiful and complex and from what that article tells me is that there are many interelated factors which influence bean colors and patterns. i posted that one, though...

23 quarts of tomatoes canned last night and then 9 & 1/2 finished up this morning, but only 9 made it into sealed jars. the left-over pint will get put in with some sloppy joes today.

thank you! :)