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Mongeta del Ganxet is indeed a pole bean that matures late in southeast Michigan. Due to its fabulous culinary reputation, I've grown it three seasons each time hoping that the next season it'd impress me enough to keep its space in the garden; after season 3 it lost its spot, though it does do...

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Regarding naming these beans – please consider three varieties as cautionary tales: “Buddha's Bellybutton” Identified as PI 346325, it was collected in India and received by our National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) in 1969 with the top name PLB-61; no Buddha or body part involved. “Charlie...

As the title suggests, I am on a mission to find seeds for these peppers. I am in southeast Michigan and have oodles of varieties of all sorts of crops for trade.

Refulgent!

From my notes, Lunga was late in all regards compared to its butternut (and cheese-type) cousins: last season's "order"- North Circle butternut, Honeynut / cheeses, then Lunga. HTH!

Respectfully, the notion a seed company intentionally mislabels a variety as a hybrid to discourage seed saving is a twee bit conspiratorial. The Federal Seed Act as well as the seed laws of the company's home state prescribes what is included on a retail seed pack. Any company worth their...

I've tried for a couple of seasons and it was always the last of my moschatas for female flowers which meant only 1-2 late maturing squash per plant. The few fruit I did harvest were flavorful though for a moschata they didn't store as long as say a cheese type.

The leaves of nettles (Urtica dioica) are also very nutritious with a protein content of 36.72%

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Ba Yi Qi de-hulls easily and is not crazy tall; at 5'7” (170 cm), DH can comfortably reach its grain heads to cut them for harvest. SSE has two milos (Texacoa, and Dwarf Grain Sorghum) that average 5” (152 cm) or less. We trialed them last season and they did well enough they will appear in...

Grain sorghums (Sorghum bicolor) are a “traditional crop in Africa and India and constitute a major source of calories and protein for millions of people.”* Yes, it has a “dark side” - it contains toxins; however, I direct your attention to the WHO's fact sheet “Natural Toxins in Food” which if...

From University of Wisconsin's informative overview of sorghum: "Use of Sorghum (grain) Worldwide, sorghum is a FOOD GRAIN About 3/4 of the world's production is used as food for humans Sorghum is a principal food source in parts of Africa, India, and China. In the US, sorghum is used...

Sorghum is self-pollinating while corn is wind pollinated which is why sorghum works well in single rows and corn is best grown in blocks.

Milo is sorghum used as a grain - it's also known as Kafir. Sorghum for syrup is often seen as Sorgo. Here are a couple of neat old ag bulletins on grain sorghum.

When we sort our grain heads the ones we don't put in our "eat pile" we set aside as winter treats for our poultry.

We love Ba Yi Qi milo and grow it every year. It is low-to-no maintenance thriving in any location we've grown it on our southeast Michigan homestead despite it essentially being neglected and is suitable for dry farming. Milo is grown like corn so while you -can- start it early inside, if you...

I'm not able to find a listing for a Buenos Aires variety that shows its seeds, but from the pod picture in Weston Seed's Posena listing and the pod picture in the listing of both Mascarell's Buenos Aires Verde "Alina" and Batlle Seed's Buenos Aires Verde "Evita" if they aren't the same bean...