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if you can find the variety called Green Beauty it is doing very well for me when many others have not done nearly as well. but if you get it beware that the chipmunks or other creatures may start going after the seeds when they are starting to dry down so be sure to pick some pods when the...

sweated some more today. i'm going to wilt this summer... 77F already... after rains today and tonight cooling off to 51F for tomorrow and not too bad for this week. also got to see first bumblebee. :) i'm sure they've been out before it's just that i've not been out that much yet meself...

Oroville almost full again (10ft to go but that is primarily for flood control). https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=31195

warm enough to do some weeding and burying more bean pods.

if you can pick the beans when you want and cook them and they taste ok and have a texture you like then they're fine. :) i think the main thing for a shelly bean though is that they do shell out easy at that plump stage. there are very few beans i've had that i didn't like as a dry bean.

and then there are also shelly beans, which are harvested plump in the shell before fully dried down, usually this also implies that the beans are easy to shell out at this stage. some lima beans are also really good at this stage.

if you like greens like spinach you may like pea shoots, they taste as good to me as the pods do, but you do want the right kind as some don't taste as good. i'll eat them right out there in the garden along with pods and peas.

... oh yes. :) it is how i know that we are getting closer to bean planting time when i start seeing some poking up out of the ground. i expect i will see some in the next few weeks.

sunny and warm enough to be outside! :)

i was able to get outside today for a while. weeded, picked gravel out of the dirt, buried some bean pods and bones from a roasted chicken for a while and then went and tried to find the poison ivy in some bushes - could not find it at all. i actually sweated a little. <horror>

welcome to TEG from mid-Michigan. :) i've found myself that it is much easier to have larger areas than many smaller areas to keep up. each edge and pathway is more work. i also like the freedom to rearrange the layouts in a larger space where in comparison to a smaller garden bed you may...

I wonder if it may be that they don't have as many native bees that will cross beans in Europe but I don't know for sure if that is what is going on? :)

i think you mean lectins?...

does it wash off?

sometimes she doesn't feel that way but we get through it... heeheehee...