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The last post about the long keeper tomatoes! I whizzed the 'Ramillette de Mallorca''s and 'Golden Treasure' beefsteaks today in the...

Ok, the storage tomato adventure continues. So, we had some burgers last week and I finally cut one of each variety into slices to do a...

You bring up a really good point that I often forget when I grow vining crops ducks - you can trim the vines to drive the energy into...

I’m inspired to do more diverse seed-saving this year! I’ve always kept seeds from favourite peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers, spinach...

@flowerbug I took a photo of the older seeds in lieu of my poor description - a picture is worth a thousand words! ;) They're definitely...

I had a miracle bean also one year also back in 2014. My miracle bean was Armenian Giant Black. A young man from Ohio sent me 5 seeds of...

Zazza - pole bean from Val Camonica, Lombardy, Italy. Very productive, from two plants I got almost 2 kg of seeds. Panzaredda - pole...

Vermont Appaloosa looks very similar and that is the color they are when fresh out of the pods. i've been growing it for 13 years...

A new bean I discovered online, which I plan to order. I actually found a bean that looked very similar to this once in a patch of...

the first two pictures i took with my new digital camera back in spring of 2008. of course purple flowers and crocuses... i've had...

"... as many as 2 percent of children are allergic to eggs." American College of Allergies, Asthma & Immunology

i am sending some more bean packets to send off to a request from Wisconsin. two of the packets will be a bunch of Dominoes and Domino...

I have dried floral arrangements that last many, many years and hold their shape much better than I. So-o …There ya go … sometimes...

i was in at a big box store (home depot) early yesterday morning and they have new new self-checkout stations. i only had 3 items...

I don't normally get much beans off the in-store seed racks because the selection is always so limited, and it seems to be the exact...