The Beans I grew this year
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Comments (18)Jim, I get bean and cheese burritos from vending machines from time to time myself....much better than the other junk they have in there. I add a few drops of habanero sauce that I keep in my desk usually. We are having some of our garden's Kentucky wonder green beans as part of tonight's fideua dinner. I will be having some baby limas with rice for my mid afternoon snack, and just had tofu with my noodle soup at lunch. (I have to eat a lot when I ride my bike to work, it is strenuous) Did not grow the limas or the soy beans for the tofu. I am trying to grow limas and realized no way I am eating the pods (too tough and fibrous!) so I will harvest as either shellies or dried beans, but they are not done yet. I have to eat beans in some form or another every day, otherwise I do not feel like I have eaten....so the more of them I grow the better life gets....See MoreAre These Pole Beans Worth Saving For Next Year?
Comments (2)If you like the beans, it is worth a try using the seed that you have. I was able to grow pole beans from seed that had experienced many winter days with sub freezing temperatuers. I performed a germination test for viability first....See MoreIncredible Edibles All Bean Fall Swap!!!!! Just Beans!!!!
Comments (150)Well, I received Gary's HUGE package today! I felt like it was Christmas! LOL! He shared so many beans, you should all thank him for his generousity! And please GARY, let me know of some varieties that you DONT have so I can send you back some good ones in return! sugarshane, gardenmom2, and Zebraman, if you do not mind, could you just send me an email or post to let me know that you are still in this and if your beans are sent out yet? No problems, just wanted to double check with the people who I have not seen active on the thead lately. Christy ***bonechickchris~Christy ***dirtdiggin~Toni ***booberry85~Becky sunnyk~Donna ***highalttransplant~Bonnie gardenmom2~Nichol ***grymntl~Bruce ***tormato~Gary sugarshane1313~Jim sassybutterfly 2008~Wendy ***dem pa~Don zebraman ***Daniel aka dirtdiggin Jr. luvgardening2/Nancy ***remy ***arroyogardener/Jamie ***reynal/Danny (*** seeds Received)...See MoreI Have A Two Year Old Ficus Benjamina That I Grew From A Clippin
Comments (15)No - nothing wrong, but the top could stand some thinning. To grow benjamina well, the top needs to be restrained - even if the plant is still much shorter than the ht at which you'd like to maintain the tree. This is because the plant is very apically dominant and tends to allot about 2/3 of it's energy to the top 1/3 of the tree. If you view the tree looking for verification of the tendency, you'll see what I mean. The counter measure is to regularly reduce the top, which serves 2 purposes. It keeps the top branches from getting conspicuously heavy, and it lets more light through to stimulate back-budding nearer the center of the foliage mass. Your tree is already getting some rather heavy branching at the top of the tree where things should be light & airy - twiggy. To fix that, you would first sort of bring the branch extension back inside of an imaginary ball shape by pruning back the longer top branches. Then, open up the top by concentrating on the heavy branches. Cut those back so you're leaving a pair of fine branches pointing in favorable directions, or to a single fine branch pointing in a favorable direction. The branches in the lower 2/3 of the tree would just get minimal pruning. It already appears to have a rather nice shape (good job!), but could do with that extra measure of refinement if you're up for it. Al...See More- 11 years agolast modified: 9 years ago
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