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2021 Bean Report - How things went in the 2021 hot summer.
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2020 bean garden - The bean garden is twenty two 14 foot long trellises. The plan for this year is: Alice Whitis Aunt Jean’s Aunt Kate’s X 2 Barnes Mountain B... Read More
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2018 Bean Results - 10/14 2018 Bean report from south of Seattle. These are all pole beans. The summer was unusually hot with many 90F+ days. Nights were 50ish ... Read More
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Planting corn in hills - Does anyone in this group plant corn hills? What diameter are the hills? How far apart? How many plants per hill? - Richard.
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2016 Results - 10/23/16 - April and early May 2016 were hot here south of Seattle but the last half of May and most of the summer was much cooler than usua... Read More
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Creatures cutting off mature pole bean vines. - My bean garden is riddled with tunnels that are about 1 inch to 1.5 inch diameter. Where bean vines are located near the openings to these t... Read More
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Early pole snap beans in the PNW. - Here are some pole beans that produce snaps earlier than some others here south of Seattle. Anellino Giallo 8/21/12 yellow snaps (not start... Read More
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2014 Bean Patch - The shortest day of the year has come and gone and today is about 3 seconds longer than yesterday! Crocuses and daffodils are only 6 weeks a... Read More
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SSE online Yearbook available to nonmembers - SSE has made their Yearbook available to nonmembers. You cannot see the historical listings but you can see current offerings. - Dick Here i... Read More
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Snap Bean Succession Planting - Here in the PNW we can't grow Lima beans or many of the long season common beans apart from growing them in a greenhouse. But we can more or... Read More
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