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I had help shelling the Bond runner beans

Brazilian purple moor looks a lot like blue moro from Mexico. Since Moro and Moor mean the same thing I bet that they are the same bean

Lima beans often have beautiful crosswise stripes. Common beans have longitudal stripes and checkers but are there any common beans with crosswise stripes?

this sounds similar to what happens when a plant that flowers when the days are short, is grown farther north where the days are long. This paper says that beans flower earlier when days are short so I suspect that is what is happening. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00438-020-01751-0

I grew okra this year. I grew 8"

I haven't grown cut short beans, but my beans go from shelly to starting to mature when the pod turn from green to slightly yellow

One plant that I thought was Desert Song produced pretty yellow beans. The only yellow bean that the supplier grows is Nez Pierce so this bush bean either has Nez Pierce as a grand parent or is 100% Nez Pierce. Darren Abbey says that you can get blue beans by crossing a yellow with a black or...

Desert Song beans have very pretty pods, I am very happy with how early blue moro matured. (I have them drying in egg cartons so that I can keep the individual plants separate until fully dried) I grew rattlesnake beans. I love how easy they are to see against the green leaves and green...

I haven’t grown them before but the grocery store sells fresh chickpeas in the pod. They taste kind of like fresh green soybeans. Carol Dep pops dried chickpeas like popcorn But my favorite is falafel

I had to chase another pest out of the garden (he was a big fan of tomatoes last year) And today I put out the tomatoes

they grow chickpeas and lentils commercially in my state so I thought they were worth a try

The peas turnips and chickpeas are doing well

The strawberries look very cute! Did you do anything special to germinate them? I bought musk strawberry seeds that I intend to plant this year

there is a pest in the garden And I had to dig up a huge rock

Japanese flowering cherry. The two year old likes to shake the branches to make the petals drift down

This year I’m covering the paths with woodchips so the grass doesn’t spread and turn it into lawn by the end of the season

I was thinking that it might be titled “ducks for more in 2024”

Last year I found some pepper seeds from 2012 sitting on the shelf in the shed, so they had been exposed to a decade of both high temperatures and freezing winters. I figured that I'd be lucky to get a couple to sprout and poured the whole packet into my little sprouting tray (in a former life...