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I thought @Bluejay would like to see this - 32 pint jars of Red Turtle beans, all pressure canned and ready to eat. I snacked on a half jar before I thought to take a picture.

I did the same thing this year with chickpeas. Sure, they're bigger, but with 1-2 seeds per pod they're hardly worth the time it takes to pick them by hand. I enjoy growing wheat but it tends to sit around in heads until the next time I plant it :) Quinoa is also fun to grow, just because it's...

I technically grew lentils once, and I'm glad I did, but I took one look at the pods and said, "Well that was fun". I think I might have picked one or two to show people and that's about it. I really appreciate that you take pictures of the dry plants along with the seeds. I always have good...

Do the birds eat the beans? I .. didn't know this was a thing :oops: Sometimes a crow or robin will yank seedlings out of the ground but I've never had problems with the adult beans. One more thing to fuel my paranoia. I also sometimes use canning jars with the bands over paper towels. I'm also...

I grew up a few miles from the Chester that this bean is named after and I always get a kick out of seeing it. I don't grow it reliably because so many others do, but I do order it from a local small scale seed grower every few years to make sure I have it if it suddenly falls out of favor...

Your marbled soy are on my garden plan for next year! So are your Black Eyed Susan peas. I looked at Tankuro on Kitazawa the other day but it said 85 days, and I assumed that was an edamame number. Maybe that variety isn't as late as I thought. I also thought Hokkaido was a later variety. Hmm.

Panther was something I got somewhere local, but I think it's a Stone Barns variety, and they have a similar climate to me. I knew I might be in trouble when it made huge plants. The bean size is pretty comparable to the pic above. I feel like I should add, in Panther's defense, this year was...

A soybean question, mostly for @Zeedman but I thought I'd post it here in case others are interested. Is there a super short season black soybean that's worth growing? I tried Panther this year, and the harvest window for edamame was incredibly long, but even with our extra month+ of growing...

These are beautiful! I didn't take a picture before putting them away for winter, but your Sutton peas did well for me! I haven't looked at their site much since they stopped shipping to the US but a lot of their beans came from Leigh Hurley, a local seed saver who first got me into beans.

I don't know the mechanics, but my own experience tells me that reversals are somehow environmental though some varieties definitely get more. I've tried planting all reversals of a couple of varieties, including Ga Ga Hut pinto and it doesn't seem to affect the final result.

Today's soybeans: Gaia (green/black) and Bei 77-6177 (cream). Roughly the same DTM, though with the soggy soil this year I wouldn't promise that's a given. 77-6177 is taller and more upright where Gaia has more branching. Panther soy is still making edamame, so I'm not super optimistic about...

I've done a few things. I made something IMF-like (I don't know enough about Jadam to claim it's really IMF), inoculated 2 5 gallon tubs of wheat bran with it, and spread it around right before two days of rain. Just to get something living back into the soil. I've also got a lot of worm...

Yeah, I poked around some and there's nothing alive in the soil. Not even in the rotten woodchips that make up the pathways, which are usually practically squirming. I think I'm more sad about that than the plants.

I don't personally have corn, but the corn that's in the flooded shed picture is still alive and seems ok. Corn that gets knocked over and silty doesn't do as well. There's some fields here that are so flat and brown that all that's alive is the red rooted pigweed (wild amaranth).

It's easier for me to find since I can just look at my own listings. Just to be clear, it's supposed to be GorOh instead of GorAh!

The garden that got flooded was under several feet of water for a couple of days and it took a couple of weeks before you could walk on it. In between those it was the consistency of wet concrete. Soil tests came back free of chemical contaminants, but with almost no nutrients or arbuscular...

Phew. I apparently have this spelled wrong in my garden notes, but I'm glad it's there and not in my SSE listing.

Hi all, I know i haven't posted in a while, but there just isn't much to post about. This is easily my worst garden year ever. My trial garden is somewhere in here (taken from a canoe, the day before peak flooding): A photo of it was even featured on NPR though not for the reasons I'd like...

I use both Gorah and Amplissimo as soup peas, and for hummus. Gorah came from VT DA S in Seed Savers, and a semi-local seed saving friend. I may have spelled it wrong either in my listing or when I sent them to you. I'll track down last year's catalog and figure that out...

Interesting! Thanks for sharing. I've never done a side by side comparison, though now that you mention it, Johnson is a pretty big bean. Also this post well timed because I was eating a jar of Johnson beans for lunch :)