Flamingo Beans
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Comments (129)Hello Everyone, Today I picked a mess of Jackson Wonder Butter beans. Discovered that about half of them had dried up on me. Have not looked at them recently as I have been busy with illness in the family. Jackson Wonder Butter Beans I cut fresh corn kernels off the cob and mix with the butter beans at a 3 to 1 ratio, season to taste. This gives them a good taste. Luther...See More5th Annual Tomato & Pepper Seed Exchange
Comments (149)There are a few members in this forum, who signed up for the swap and have still not answered any followup emails/messages from me which requested an update. It is a massive task to keep track of everyone in this swap, and I didn't think I was asking too much to let me know if you've changed your minds and no longer want to participate - or to take a quick second to let me know your seeds are in the mail. I will not mention any names, but this is to notify those individuals, that I have no choice but to assume you are no longer in this swap. If your envelope arrives without any communication from you, it will be sent back "return to sender". I just wish you could have taken a second to send me a message....it would have saved me a great deal of time with followup. IF YOU HAVEN'T MAILED YOUR SEEDS, IT'S TOO LATE NOW...DON'T SEND THEM. Thanks to everyone who took a moment to keep me up to date by posting updates or sending me an email. Your communication makes this job of coordinating the swap, so much smoother. Thanks again....See MoreGMO ?
Comments (22)Well, they won on principle, but I feel like they lost in so many ways. They lost their adapted canola from seed they'd saved and selected for many years. They lost their ability to ever grow canola again unless they were willing to face the same contamination and battle again. They lost years of living normally because they were tied up in the court case. Maybe in the end they won, but they lost all along the way. I give them credit for sticking with the battle and winning the final battle in the small claims court. It must have been satisfying to have that one go their way. In the overall battle for control of the commercial seed world, I think Monsanto won long ago. In the last 10-15 years, though, there has been a huge resurgence of interest in growing open-pollinated varieties and in saving the seeds. Tons of little home-operated seed companies have sprung up right and left, offering open-pollinated seeds of varieties that "no one" has heard of and that "no one" knows about. I try to find some of those little less-well-known varieties and grow them every year. This year, among my oddball plantings are two OP tomato varieties I bought from a small family-owned and operated seed company. They are called Joe's Giant Pink Oxheart and Work Release Paste tomatoes. If they are great tomatoes, that's fine. If they are not so great, that's fine too. I enjoy the hunt for something that no multinational firm can take away from me. Some beans I bought from them are the first beans to bloom (other than scarlet runner and Insuk's Wang Kong which I'm growing just for their flowers and to renew my seed supply) and the flowers are pink, to match the Flamingo beans, I guess. One of my old farmer neighbors used to give me so much grief for growing tomato varieties no one ever had heard of. He'd shake his head when I listed off the ones I was growing. He didn't have much use for anything that wasn't a hybrid with a string of disease-tolerance letters following the name, which is exactly the ones I mostly avoid. He also called my flowers "weeds" and said there was no place for them in the garden, so obviously his opinion didn't carry much weight with me after that. Take a look at the Flamingo Bean pods at the link below. I bet a person could convince a little girl who doesn't like to eat green beans to perhaps give pink beans a try. Flamingo Bean...See MoreNew to Tenn. Wanting to try new beans/peas. Need some education!
Comments (6)Maybe a few comments. Tennesee has lots of climates, Memphis is a lot different from Nash ville as an example. Most pole beans grow well in East Tennesse, sothwestern can be quite hot and humid. The Appalchian region is great for beans and many of the heritage varieties originated in the area. Lima beans. Baby limas have adifferent flavor than the giant limas. Christmas/Calico is one of more prolific giant limas. King of the Garden is the standard for whites. Whether you prefer shellies or dried beans is a matter of taste. Shellies are harvested when the beans are full size and pods are leathery and easy to open. For Dry beans the pods are allowed to dry on the plants, harvested, dried some more, and then shelled. They usually grow in flushes with intervals between harvest. This harvest photo shows a mix of shellies and dry. Cowpeas come in all sizes colors and shape. Zippers have green shells that don't dramatically change colors like purple hull types. For shellies the pods will get lighter in color and be full of peas. Zippers are noted for easy shelling as shellies. If you let dry on the vine, they can then be used as dry peas. They are most desired as green shellies....See Moresweetquietplace
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