Hi,
according to my feeds into Agent 4 there hasn't been any alt.c posts [with, perhaps the odd Ilya Shambles rambling] since 8/1/22, that's a couple of weeks ago.
Have I broken it?
Does no one like me no more?
I'm fine if so but I'd like to know, thanks.
Okay, so I won't be "fine", I'll curl up into a cold, dark corner and weep copiously but that's sort of cool, too.
J.
we've talked on the phone a few times and i met him about two years ago at our local regional seed swap. sadly that is not happening this year. i hope to see him again sometime. :) bean friends are always good to see. the problem with a seed swap is that once it gets going it is often very busy and there isn't too much time to talk or look through things we've brought.
i am not into pole beans but i'm familiar with that name and i have grown some pole beans in the past that were over the top of the fence by the 4th of July (even in our rather poor soil). that is impressive. :)
last year i only grew a few pole beans of one variety and it wasn't a stable one so i didn't get back the beans i was hoping for.
the year before i grew out a lot of pole beans and had some return but we got frosted in September 15th and so much of the beans that were plump but not dried down were ruined. i just can't afford to do too many beans like that and won't do it again. a lot of work for not much return. instead what i work on here myself and for my own collection and growing are earlier season bush beans so that they are mostly done by mid-September. that's my cut-off date. any- thing that goes longer than that isn't my primary focus at all. just experimental or i'm selecting and hoping for earlier crosses which keep the same seed coat pattern and other desired traits. :) i get a few beans here or there that fit my needs and that is fun and why i keep doing it.
songbird
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