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The 2025 beans are nearly all fully dry, just waiting on a small number of stragglers, some of the later formed runner beans in particular. I've shelled a few varieties so far, did Ocean View tonight. That is such a pretty bean, and I got almost no reverts in this batch, a dozen seeds looked...

I grew Gialet della Val Bellaluna this year too @Decoy1 and had the very same experience with it! Went from not dry to very dry quite quickly.

I DM'ed you! 👍

Made an easy supper tonight with 'garden dregs' which turned out to be very good, so I thought I'd post here. A healthy supper using end of season produce, which might need to get used up before perishing if it hasn't been canned or dried or frozen. A handful of leeks 6 potatoes 4 big carrots...

I didn't even think of that!

Almost filled up my first XL leaf bag tonight with pea & bean shells! 😌 Took me a little bit to find my stride, but once I got going all the copper bottomed thrills showed up. I've probably said it many times at this point, but the rejoicing that comes with savouring the year end seed harvest...

Is it difficult to pull out your stakes at the end of the season @Bluejay ? Or do they dislodge fairly easily? I imagine you probably drive them in over a foot? I'm wondering if the time is coming for me to switch to stakes like you have, instead of my trees. It is so much work to cut them...

Lady achieved this heel using an online course released by a trainer a few hours from me, just amazing. Most of us wanting to go into more complicated processes with our dog need hands on guidance, so that she did this on her own is wild. Of course, it helps that she has a Malinois.😂

You're done shelling all the 2025 pods @Bluejay?

Tonight I start to work at all the paper bags full of dried pods! :ya

How wonderful that you're feeling so good @ducks4you! :hugs

It's very difficult to identify beans, but I would make the guess 'Supermarconi' pole beans. The flower is even purple in the link. I would also say definitely Italian in origin, even the dried seeds. 'Rosa's' is similar as well, another Italian romano bean variety, and the seeds are a dark...

Beautiful beans! 😍 Love those half purple and half white ones!

I enjoy this account so much, my inner fact geek enjoys her knowledge and the accent only adds to the experience! https://www.instagram.com/learn.the.latin.garden/?e=ab42c7ee-dbb6-47b2-8725-3c590d6f83d4&g=5

I loved, adored even, living in a French province. The struggle to understand those around me, and integrate into the language was a singular experience I'll never forget! Songs like this bring back such happy memories!

Ground up the first two dried pepper batches! It started out as fine powder, but as the day went on and the humidity increased and it got clumpy. So I left a paper towel on top and will wait for the humidity to drop before putting in a jar. But it tastes wonderful. I put some in the center of...

I have had problems with it too in bush beans, and also in pole beans at times @oxbow farm. Impossible to control on the poles, but with the bushes you could pull them and dry the pods up hanging instead. Can be a very impractical option if your growing a lot of plants, but even if you pick...

Processing and de-seeding the 'Nomad' peppers tonight! There have been so many peppers to deal with I started to wonder what I'd do with them all. This has not really been an issue before, lol. I've frozen roasted peppers, but wasn't thrilled about that result. Then I had the idea to get...

Well, I pooped out on getting the sunchokes in. My body just would not cooperate. So I compromised with it and finished digging out the last sunchoke variety instead, which allowed me to sit in one spot more or less. DD helped. Only in the last bit do I take the shovel to the area and dig...

What a coincidence, an Italian neighbour a few streets over sent DH home with a big chunk of comfrey plant last week. It has black roots, and she tells me that it's 'the real thing'? I have no experience with this herb, but it's waiting in a pot right now to be planted somewhere! I should...