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Rruralmamma reacted to Blue-Jay's post in the thread 2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family with
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Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 3 Algonquin - Pole Dry. This bean came out of a packet of seed in 2015 from Will Bonsall (The Scattered... -
Rruralmamma reacted to flowerbug's post in the thread 2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family with Like.
yesterday i took some beans with me to the library to sort as they have a nice big table and good lighting. :) i got through a bunch...
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Rruralmamma reacted to Blue-Jay's post in the thread 2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family with Love.
Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 2 Appaloosa - Bush Dry. Having last grown this bean in 2021 I originally obtained the bean from Full...
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Rruralmamma reacted to Blue-Jay's post in the thread 2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family with Love.
Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 2 Alice Sunshine hadn't been grown since 2025. Grown in my backyard plot it did very well and produced...
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Rruralmamma reacted to Artorius's post in the thread 2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family with Love.
More bean photos from 2025. Bonel di Fonzaso from the Veneto region, Italy. One of the two pole beans whose seeds I collected...
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Rruralmamma reacted to Blue-Jay's post in the thread 2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family with Love.
Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show I grew one of Artur's beans this year. The 1500 Year Old Cave. 8 plants produce about 2.5 pounds (1.1 kg) of...
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Rruralmamma reacted to flowerbug's post in the thread 2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family with Like.
first of all get your light consistent and then check white balance and see how that looks and then go from there. however, i have a...
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Rruralmamma reacted to flowerbug's post in the thread 2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family with Like.
i don't worry about it too much here. i don't really consider Purple Dove to have the sprawl habit as it doesn't get beyond a few feet...
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Rruralmamma reacted to Blue-Jay's post in the thread 2026 Little Easy Bean Network – Plant A Garden, Water Your Soul, Join Our Family with Love.
Over the weekend I was feeling a little bumbed out. I spent a number of days taking bean photos in January and this month of February...
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Shades-of-Oregon reacted to Marie2020's post in the thread The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Gardening with Like.
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Shades-of-Oregon reacted to Joao's post in the thread The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Gardening with Like.
completely agree about soil being the real starting point. I spent my first year obsessing over what to plant when I should have been...
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Shades-of-Oregon reacted to digitS''s post in the thread The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Gardening with
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All gardening is local. Perhaps, you are located on wonderful fertile ground. New construction didn’t pull subsoil up and push topsoil... -
Shades-of-Oregon reacted to ducks4you's post in the thread The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Gardening with Informative.
This is a good follow up to distinguish between native species and invasive plants, which ONLY means plants from other places, mostly...
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Shades-of-Oregon reacted to ducks4you's post in the thread The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Gardening with Informative.
SO MUCH of gardening is preparation. In my garden I am beginning to remove 3 years worth of weed growth. I don't have to dig them up...
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Shades-of-Oregon reacted to TEG Project Manager's post in the thread The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Gardening with Informative.
Have you ever looked at your backyard and thought, “This space could be doing more than just growing weeds”? Maybe you’ve imagined...