ducks4you
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Where do you live/garden? Please put That with your avatar so that we know what zone, etc. you are talking about.
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2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family
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Blue-Jay
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We have someone from Switzerland. Hello and Welcome @Oxford. Hope you will be with us frequently to our bean thread.
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Rillowen
Attractive To Bees
Wow, took me a minute to find that option, sorry! All fixed, and zone 6.Where do you live/garden? Please put That with your avatar so that we know what zone, etc. you are talking about.
THANKS!
ruralmamma
Deeply Rooted
Hmm, I tried sprouting some and they never came up. I set it up with a bottom water tray for wicking, do you think they got too wet?
Last year I tried something different. School ordered tons of berries/soft fruits as an Easter treat for the kids and it was our job to divide those berries into fruit cups and of course I grabbed the clamshell containers to use as mini greenhouses. Used the smaller ones along with a square of damp paper towel on the bottom to sprout the beans that didn't get started in pots. Put a label inside the clamshell so it wouldn't get separated from the beans. I could stack them up in the greenhouse and the clamshells had vent holes, which allowed air circulation. One thing to note is that I did have a few seeds that hadn't yet sprouted by planting time but put them in the ground too and the majority of them grew as well.
I believe our last frost date is only a day or two away but temps have dropped into the lower 30s the last two nights and predicted to do so at least another night. In 2020 we had snow on April 28th, which was a rarity but something that could easily happen now given the overnight temps. I haven't yet started or pre-sprouted any beans.
ruralmamma
Deeply Rooted
Thank you. My husband is doing well now. He's back to work and a bit aggravated that he can't do what he once did. However he did spend a day helping me finish the fence around the bigger garden last week and that was quite an accomplishment for both of us.
As for me, my GP prescribed a round of steroids in an attempt to reduce some of the swelling around my Achilles tendon and it helped enough that I was able to get the majority of the garden ready for planting. Currently waiting on X-ray results and fingers crossed I can start PT soon.
