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Ohhh these are all beauties! Welcome, Paul! Is Succotash named for the Narragansett dish?

I feel like I'm getting way off the thread topic but - They're bigger in terms of container volume, not in terms of how much I put in them. The 5 gallon tubs weigh about the same as the 14s.. they're just lacking in airspace above the bedding.

It's rare that mine are more than 6" deep with actual bedding. About the only time that happens is when I plant dahlias in the spring and dump their winter bedding on top of the worm bins. When it comes to wandering worms, I find that bigger tubes work better. My 14 gallon rubbermaid totes...

My bins are just Rubbermaid totes, so I'm not sure I have 'deep enough', but I don't mind the sprouts. They're just future worm food. Right now the bins look like they need mowing because I threw some old wheat berries on top last week. I rarely have any real quantity of dry beans that I'm...

Killing all of the plants at once with roundup, etc. makes them dry uniformly for combining. With potatoes, it kills the tops off all at once so that there's no stragglers to bind up the potato pickers. My worm bins regularly have foot long, pale, stringy bean sprouts from such beans, growing...

I'm not the most vocal champion of organic standards, though I follow them myself, but drydown herbicides sketch me the eff out. I don't buy conventional potatoes or grains anymore because I just don't like the idea.

It's is so weird when culture meets agriculture. Soy is one of the biggest crops in the US but there's very limited information for processing it at home, other than a few sites about edamame. Same with flour/dent corn.

I suspect this is why favas are so much more popular on that side of the puddle. This whole thread has made me want a yummy Scottish curry.

I haven't paid a lot of attention to the main stream seed catalogs in a long time, but "French Beans" used to refer to the longer, Haricot Vert style green beans rather than our stubbier American varieties. I also vaguely remember it being a style of store-bought, metal-canned bean where the...

I really like the big cranberry bean types for chili. They're huge and hold together well during cooking.

The more time I spend growing beans, the more I look at the pod type before the bean coat or size. Those Wild Gonny's look nice and easy to shell. Just looking at Kartoffelbohne makes my fingers hurt. Beautiful pics as always!

I have a bunch of pretty disparate gardens, one at home, one at a community garden, and two at a farm that some friends own, and have only had the weevils in the community garden plot. I usually either pressure can or freeze those immediately so that, if they have weevils, they can't infect...

Hmm I think we had 'Purple Moon' from Kitazawa last year, but again just as an ornamental. Whatever we got this year was also purple, and grew huge, but hasn't produced a single flower. There's so many different beans that I'm ok with lablabs only being ornamentals, but the beans are just so cute!

Hmm this is interesting. For once I wish I had bean weevils this year so I could experiment! I want to hear about your lablabs. Do you eat them? We often grow them as an ornamental but I've never even eaten the shoots.

I think bean and pea weevils are the same thing? Grain weevils can also attack beans but I don't think it's their preferred crop. Your best bet is to avoid them in the first place by freezing anything you might plant. I only get weevils in my community garden plot. I don't replant those beans...

When I was a kid we'd occasionally get a box of cereal or some flour with weevils in it, and finding them in your beans is nothing like finding them in a half eaten bowl of cereal. 😉

Maybe? Good thought! I even have some. If I find time to thresh it soon enough I can just freeze it but otherwise I'll definitely keep this in mind!

Speaking of late season pests, I just noticed movement on one of the bunches of sorghum heads, shook it and .. weevils! In my house! With the beans! If anyone needs me tonight I'll be sitting on front of the bean rack, shotgun in hand, and a watchful eye on the hardwood floor around us. Ok...

I don't grow often grow a lot of viney types anymore, but I had some quack grass sneaking into one garden and wanted to cover it with landscape fabric for the year, so it gave me some room to play. I've done this more times that I can count, and also waited too long far too many times. I...

https://www.highmowingseeds.com/organic-non-gmo-delicata-squash.html I'm pretty sure they came from here, but I'm not 100% positive. They're a variety that @Bluejay77 found back in the 70s. They're on this page: https://www.abeancollectorswindow.com/beanpage5.html I haven't mailed your package...