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If you stumbled among this site, "Evelyn’s Twigs, Thyme and Stranger Things Gardens" is a collection of journal entries that I have kept on my computer for years, and have now decided to post. The journal contains my successes and failures with my favorite selections of plants. I'm talking about more than 50 years of caring for and living with green things. Not everything is here. More of it is learned and store in my head. However, here I will share facts about each plants, my research, as well as my personal and gathered tips on their care. I was not planning to post my houseplant and backyard journals online, so editing them for errors was not a priority to me. This being the case, perhaps, one day I will correct all the spelling and grammar errors in both of them. We would not want people to think I did not know better, when I was only being lazy. Again, no apologizes. It is what it is for now.

Thursday, July 9, 2026

What is a bean?

 Hello, Darlings

My post today is about how my hydroponic grown green beans are measuring up to the store bought green beans I got some time ago. As you can see, my homegrown hydroponic Contender Green Beans on the left are equal to the store bought green beans on the right in size, which is great news. 

Although, I only picked a handful, because I was cleaning the beans’ hydroponic tower, these and the other I picked are now in the freezer. As for the store bought green beans, they always go into the freezer straight from the store, so I always have some around for cooking. 

As I stated in a previous post, the vegetables I grow are supplements for when we are running out on a particular vegetable, or when the store is out of them. Moreover, I have learned succession planting is the key to growing and storing a good supply of them. Much like the collard greens (another post) I grew for eight months, now I have enough of them for the remainder of the year.

Anyway, I am pleased with the growth of these green beans, and I will write a future post on how their taste measures up to those of the store bought ones.

Until next time,

         Keep Growing!!!!

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