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The smooth ones you can see are New England Pie from High Mowing, there's a couple dozen Winter Luxury under those, and the black crate is full of Delicata squash. Almost all of these are still in my car because my plan to decorate the living room with 50 pumpkins was vetoed. Rude.

No rain but it was overcast and that's where the wind was coming from. It felt like all of the air where I was was in a hurry off shore to join the party! I had high hopes that the cold front would get shoved north at the last minute but no such luck. Today is gorgeous though! I also picked my...

It was 44F yesterday from an incoming cold front, but with a steady 20-25mph wind from a nearby hurricane sucking all the air up. Weird weather. There was no wind when I left home, so I was unprepared and had to keep taking breaks to get feeling back in my hands. My 'cold gardens' are living up...

I only skimmed this but it felt like it spent more time talking about all the things to dig up rather than what to leave. I don't personally dig up anything except root crops and weeds with rhizomes like quack grass and bishops weed. Everything else gets cut off at ground level. The beans I cut...

Good luck! My zone 3 gardens are likely to get frosted Friday night, if not sooner. The forecast that night is for 35F but they're at ~1300' elevation...

Whoa, I forgot to post a picture of the actual beans!

I vote we dub it 'Wicked Awesome Mini Moo' (WAMM for short). I should do more plant breeding. I like naming things.

They vary some. Maybe 8-10 inches on average? Some of them have ~15 seeds in them which is pretty nice!

MN-150 cow peas in my zone 3 garden! I've never seen cowpeas anywhere close to this garden, so this is a bit of a shock. About 1/3 of the pods were dry, and I probably should have cut down the plants because I think they may have been frosted last night, but we'll see. Definitely a keeper. ETA...

This is why I ❤️ driving through the flat parts of Quebec and Ontario during late summer when all the soybeans are nice and bushy!

I've been to many, many seed saving events with Leigh, and I can send you some of her Johnson beans if you want to do a side by side trial with Gross Brothers. I believe Gross Brothers is at network bean too. Leigh has fallen off the seed saving radar in the last few years, but I grow her...

Last year they were in a trial garden, all snarled up on a single trellis with a bunch of other varieties. This year I planted the rest of what you sent me in a 15' row in a garden with no other vulgaris varieties. They didn't want to climb their trellis early on and I had to keep relocating...

There are some tomatoes right behind those beans. The one I posted last week was near some peppers. I think the hornworms wander a bit between snacks...

This hornworm was hanging out in the beans, acting all shy when I tried to take its picture. Some of the Red Turtle Beans look like they're getting a bit big for their britches. I love the pink of the not-so-dry.

Hi all! Thanks for all the replies about block planting experiences. There's far too many to quote! This idea started when someone gave me a roughly 30x30 foot piece of silage tarp and I got the idea of killing off some grass and doing 4 blocks, a little less than 15x15' each with pathways...

This mostly just sounds like extra work and an extra step where something can go wrong. In the case of beans it's easy enough to just spread them out to dry. If they're more than a single layer deep I drag my fingers through them as often as possible, sand garden style. If it's too humid to do...

Opinion time: If you were going to block-plant hobby scale quantities of either bush P. vulgaris or soy beans, what spacing(s) would you use? I feel like most of the spacing online and in books has more to do with harvesting equipment in farm fields than actual plant needs.

Are they frost hardy? What qualifies as 'hot' there? Uprising's site says 90 days, and if that's to dry beans I could try them in my zone 3 gardens where 85F is rare!

Ohhh I want to hear all about this! I was eying those on Uprising Seeds' website last winter but didn't order them. Are they the same as grass peas?

There were maybe a half dozen moldy pods in 60' (well, 55' after the bull incident) of trellis, which I just tossed over my shoulder into a different row. In every case it was a pod that was sitting under decomposing leaves that have fallen off. Red Turtle, growing a few hundred feet away, lost...