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no sprays are used here for bugs. the birds, other animals, spiders, etc. all get their shot at eating what they can find. once in a...

Some of my nicer looking beans :) Mountaineer White Half-Runner Lobitz's Purple Rain Pods of another Lobitz's bean. - Chaska...

I don’t dip my dahlias in boiling water — their stems are too delicate for that. Some growers do a quick dip in very hot (not boiling)...

Some of my nicer looking beans :) Mountaineer White Half-Runner Lobitz's Purple Rain Pods of another Lobitz's bean. - Chaska...

I sometimes have the same problem with chipmunks, when soybeans get close to drying. If allowed to do so unchecked, they can harvest...

No thank goodness 😳

I also started the seed harvesting. Interestingly, I found a Meerbarbe / blue sea barb where the seeds have a reversed color of white...

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Some of my nicer looking beans :) Mountaineer White Half-Runner Lobitz's Purple Rain Pods of another Lobitz's bean. - Chaska...

thank you, but no thank you. :) i don't normally grow pole beans and am trying to avoid getting more unless there's some trait i'm...

i would like to know, but so far the most information i've got is that Alan Kapuler may have gotten some of RL's records but Alan passed...

I also started the seed harvesting. Interestingly, I found a Meerbarbe / blue sea barb where the seeds have a reversed color of white...

I wonder if one of Robert's Purple podded beans were crossed with some African bean that might not even have been a purple bean but...