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@Heliena most of the regular common beans will self-pollinate, it's the others that can be more of a challenge. for those i regularly grow i keep an eye out for crosses when i'm shelling and sorting so i don't get too much genetic wandering going on. i normally interplant intentionally to...

if i'd have opened the container, they were all tiny wasp-like creatures, they'd have been flying around before i could have eaten them.

if you do harvest them they may have bugs in them... how i learned this was when i harvested some here from along a trail in the park. i put the rose hips in a plastic film cannister and then set it on the shelf with a bunch of others and forgot about it for a bit. sometime later i was going...

the word is the herd... (sorry, first thought of the day :) it could be worse (cue disco duck)... )... .. .

there's a reason why pedant rhymes with deadant...

it was reasonably warmer today so that was nice and since i had to run some errands today that helped. :)

yes, i recall it being reasonably productive for me when i grew it those years ago. too bad it is a pole bean, but i did have extra seeds for a long time and did get some of those given away to other people before i ran out. i don't think i have any here now other than perhaps some of those...

no snow, cold at 19F with wind chill down to 6F. up to 38F today and increasing day time temperatures through the week, some nights still below freezing.

the more northern part of the lower peninsula of MI got a good storm the past few days so the crews are out restoring power. still a day or two for quite a few people to have power restored. temperatures pretty cold the next day or two. glad it missed us.

that's the kind of stuff i remember from living up north too. just life. it melts eventually. the houses were built up there with the front porch and first floor about 1.5m off the ground level so you'd have someplace to shovel snow when winter kept going on and on. sometimes we'd have snow...

we had a lot of rain again last night and then this morning, but now it is cleared up and sunny and windy and cold. some chance of snow is forecast for later but i'm ok with snow, the temperatures will go back to the teensF tonight - i'm hoping the winds don't get bad enough to take the power...

at first i thought this was going to be about a different plant, but interesting... :)

i was naughty at times, but this was someone else i knew and was living with for a while and some episodes that i witnessed involving a troubled child. ended up ok years later but for the short term back then it made me go from having a home to being homeless within a few moments.

congrats to her then for the hard work and getting through a tough time.