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WhistlingBadger:
Look at this oat patch! It should be ready to harvest in a couple more weeks, and I should get several pounds of good hulless oats. I'm very excited about this, never having grown grain before (except corn).
There's an old story about Dr. Johnson, the famous English scholar (and scoffer at all things not-English), traveling through Scotland with Mr. Boswell, his Scottish assistant (and no slouch in the brains department, himself). Johnson, commenting on the prevalence of oats in the Scots' diet, said, "In Scotland they feed men what in England we only give to our horses."
Boswell, not missing a beat, replied, "Yes. England has better horses. Scotland has better men."
Eric Krewson:
Aside from my usual Ky wonder pole beans I tried Anasazi beans, the pack of seeds said bush beans but I built a trellis for them having read conflicting reports about their climbing ability.
I could tell the pickings were slim off the 16 ft row, lots of vines, few beans but tried to get enough for lunch. I got so few I decided to walk down in my woods to get some chanterells to cook with the beans to fill the pot better.
I cooked the beans with chanterells and onions, they had a sweet taste and were a bit different, I like Ky wonder pole beans better.
mullet:
The Kentucky Wonder pole bean is my go to bean also. They produce a lot of beans.
Marc St Louis:
Gardens were a bit slow to start here with a nasty cold spell at the beginning of June, lost all my Cabbage to frost. My Spaghetti Squash are finally starting to produce fruit. We started actively planting a native plant called Lambs Quarter that is tasty and full of nutrients, before I would just pick it out of the garden as a weed. Now I have to figure out a way to stop the Deer from eating it, they seem to like it as well.
WhistlingBadger:
We mostly grow shell beans. We've had good luck with golden jacob's cattle. This year we're trying Caribbean black beans. I doubt they'll amount to much in our climate, but you never know until you try...
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