Search results

  1. heirloomgal

    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    I have the beans I'm returning to you all packed up. I will connect with my tech friend asap and get your package in the mail @Blue-Jay. I'll forward you the tracking number when I get it. Happy landing! 🏡
  2. heirloomgal

    What Unexpected Garden Guest Surprised You This Week? 🌿

    This past week we have had truly disturbing visitors, not so much in the garden but behind it. A huge unkindness of ravens. I'm baffled as to why they've been here for so long and for what. I noticed today that my neighbour across the street had about 20 in his trees and there was also about...
  3. heirloomgal

    Your Weather, 2025

    -22C/-8F, but on the positive side I haven't seen any mosquitoes.
  4. heirloomgal

    Gone to the Dogs

    I wish I knew @Marie2020. All I can do is guess based on what I saw. It appears that she died right there on the road, or was very ill and collapsed on the road. The way the owner was petting her, he knew the situation was very grave. It looked like 'goodbye' petting to me. The question in...
  5. heirloomgal

    Gone to the Dogs

    My nervous system is still vibrating all wrong from that.
  6. heirloomgal

    Gone to the Dogs

    DD & I walked the dog together this afternoon. We were going down the street in the direction of the sun, and I could see someone else coming up the street toward us with a large dog on a leash. So we moved far to the right to give them room and I caught a glimpse of their silhouette, (I was...
  7. heirloomgal

    Your Weather, 2025

    I don't really keep up a lot with the weather outside of the growing season, but this morning I got shocked by the cold. Yesterday it was -1C/30F in the daytime, this morning it was -33C with windchill factor/-27F. The look on my dogs face when I cracked the door for him to go out was priceless. 🤣
  8. heirloomgal

    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    I found an interesting tidbit about one of my network bean returns this year @Blue-Jay; the 'Potomac' bean I grew it turns out is not the one offered at Victory Seed Company. I checked all around, and Chat GPT confirmed that there are 2 separate varieties of it. That one is actually white...
  9. heirloomgal

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    I guess I didn't phrase that especially well, lol. I meant that it has been very easy for me to incorporate new savory foods into my diet as I got older and started to explore global culinary traditions. I particularly enjoy the spice heavy, vegetable and pulse centered diet of India. But the...
  10. heirloomgal

    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    I sent it yesterday, did it not show up at your end?
  11. heirloomgal

    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    Yes, great tip, I don't know why I didn't think of that. It's interesting, that bean doesn't look 10 inches either, but it does seem wide like you mentioned. Now I really am bewildered!
  12. heirloomgal

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Years ago in an Ayurvedic facility I used to make lots of different desserts from powdered milk, which is very common in India. Occasionally I made them right from scratch, boiling and boiling the milk to turn it into fudge that way, through evaporation. But I actually preferred the taste of...
  13. heirloomgal

    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    The pods from what I recall seemed quite uniform. I think I need to regrow it again, because I don't think any of them got to 10 inches. Strangely, the seed packet photos of Mombacher Speck don't seem to have 10 inch pods on the front, but rather much smaller pods. Have you grown it or have a...
  14. heirloomgal

    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    It's not my bean photo, I took a screen shot from the account of a lady who I follow on instagram. I didn't post the direct link to it, because if people don't have instagram accounts they can't access it. I actually have no idea where she got the bean from, all I know is she had the name...
  15. heirloomgal

    Your Weather, 2025

    Minor blizzard last night and so much snow the roads were barely drivable this morning. Tonight -18C/0F. Winter has truly arrived. 🥺
  16. heirloomgal

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    Random dessert experience, which I will probably remake for Christmastime! 🎄 I wanted some kind of bar type dessert that was substantial, and not too bad for human health. Preferably have some health benefit. I don't want to make anything with sugar if I can help it, though I'm not averse...
  17. heirloomgal

    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    That's exactly what I thought @Blue-Jay, your Chickasaw is the most similar bean I could think of to this one. She called it 'Salome's Treasure'. It's almost reminds me of a rainbow. Researching it I I wonder if the name is a Biblical reference.
  18. heirloomgal

    A Seed Saver's Garden

    We really only planted the cover crop because the bed wasn't ready for planting in time. The grains grow fast, and it seemed like a wise use of a space that would otherwise just have been a bed of new soil with nothing in it for half a season. But I have a feeling now that this grass will take...
  19. heirloomgal

    2025 Little Easy Bean Network - Growers Of The Future Will Be Glad We Saved

    Pretty bean from an instagram account I follow 🥰
Top