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Received my network seeds on Friday. Thank you @Bluejay77! Excited to be growing these for the network this year: Blue Gold Star Brown Rice Cappuccino Nano Cherokee Trail of Tears Evolutie Fukuryu Chanaga Globula Label Lucie Marfax Mugungi Prince Purple Striped Bunch Sulphur

What can you do with a bunch of Little Greenseed Pumpkin seeds (other than grow them)? Roast and eat them, if course! So good, too!

I am excited for a new growing season and for network beans! It's hard to believe we'll be planting before long - we still have a couple feet of snow on the ground. But we are losing it fast. Last year we grew Tongues of Fire in bulk and as we've been shelling them out I have come across a...

Not sure if this is the right bean thread to post in now, but since it's about last year's beans I think it makes sense. Just before Christmas we did a test bake of several beans that we grew in 2021. This was just a fun way for everyone to see how their bean cooked up and compared to others...

The paper is exactly 4 squares per inch, or .25 inch grid. Thanks for asking! I've updated the post with that detail.

I have read this before but it doesn't match my experience. I once saved some sunchoke tubers in a bag in the fridge over the winter so that I could plant them the next year. I missed my window of opportunity, however and at the 18 month mark decided it was too late to plant them. On...

I have grown Sunchokes and enjoyed it quite a bit. They do tend to get pretty tall and eventually will develop something like a small sunflower. They are part of the sunflower (Helianthus) family but unlike our cultivated sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) they are native to North America. They...

2021-09 2021-10 Seed drying: Comparison of dried seed (.25 inch grid):

I'm looking forward to another year with the Little Greenseed project. I was able to collect seed from 14 hand-pollinated pumpkins of various size in 2021. I did have 4 that look especially promising based on the project objectives: The top four selections are #2, 4, 8, and 9. #3 is also...

First tea of the new year. I had my first coffee at brunch.

These look alot like Good Mother Stallard. Do you know how they compare?

I do think I munched a few and thought they were pretty good. Tender and good flavor. I appreciate multi-purpose beans!

I took some time this afternoon to measure and tabulate yields for several varieties we grew out this summer. All beans were seed from @Bluejay77 and were good quality. As I mentioned previously, everyone in the family picked out a different variety to try and they were all planted in two...

This is what the Viola flowers in our garden looked like this year.

My first experience with shelly beans. I hope they taste as good as they look! These are unidentified varieties. I'm cooking them up with some Tongues of Fire.

Well, I ended up with a pretty good harvest after all. Once I noticed that the deer had found my patch we put up some electric fence and took care of that issue. I was able to hand pollinate several times but eventually the bees took over and they beat me 2 to 1. I pulled all my pumpkins a...

I think that was two hog fence panels - so 32 feet?

I just shelled the first to finish of my Succotash beans. They have proven to be the slowest of the dry beans we grew this year. But such a handsome bean - and very pleasant to shell. Does anyone have a favorite variety to share when it comes to shelling?

We have really enjoyed growing yellow peas for soup the last several years. We only make this recipe, which was our motivation for growing them - https://www.pbs.org/food/kitchen-vignettes/quebec-style-yellow-pea-soup/ We started with a bag of Lars yellow peas from the grocery store after not...

No frost yet - just chilly morning dew. It looks like we'll be ok for another week at least.