garden experiment

plumberroy

plumberroy

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Back when I planted most of my garden I had a small 15 ft row that wasn't planted yet. I went in and got a handful of beans out of a bag marked Hambeans pinto beans from walmart. the come with a ham flavor packet. Now these are big healthy half runner bean plants loaded with beans . I picked enough to snap about a big cereal bowl full The one I ate raw tasted like any other green bean I have ate raw. I will cook them tomorrow and report back if the are a decent green bean . if not I will just let them dry on the vine and shell them
Think about it Viable bean seeds from something a lot of us have in our food stocks
Roy
 
Now, that's pretty cool. I had no idea that the beans I get from the super market would still grow. Keep us posted, please.
 
I'm sure you probably know this but you can also grow potatoes from the stuff you get at the store. Just set one on the counter until it grows the little white stems. Then cut out a 1" square (with the stem sticking out of it) and plant that.

David
 
I did know about the potatoes, thanks. I've had them start growing even when I wasn't trying LOL. I've also grown avocados from the seeds inside (actually, it was my former GF who did that).

I wonder just how many other common supermarket items can be planted and grown?
 
As far as I know any vegetable or fruit that is not cooked can be used to grow more of the same. In general though you have to plant part of the fruit with the seed and it works best if you plant the whole fruit.

David
 
You know, for some reason I always thought that the produce we got from supermarkets was sterile, and wouldn't grow: obviously, I was wrong. I just never investigated it. This could prove to be an interesting thread. If you can grow beans from the bag, what else may be possible?
 
Many of the foods we buy at the grocery store are hybrids, some of these seeds will germinate, and some will not. Of those that germinate some will not flower or grow fruit/veggies. It has something to do with them being genetically engineered. I remember when I was a kid on the farm, we had to buy our planting corn each year, you couldn't just plant the corn form last years ears.
 
I plant my potato,s in scrap pieces of plastic storm drain pipe I get on the job. Think 24" to 48" diameter and 12" to 24" high pieces just set on the ground and filled with good loose soil. When its time to harvest I just slide the pipes off and paw through the soil. You dont even need a shovel or fork. Works good for other plants also. Think of it as bottomless container gardening.green:thumbup:--KV
 
kvaughn said:
I plant my potato,s in scrap pieces of plastic storm drain pipe I get on the job. Think 24" to 48" diameter and 12" to 24" high pieces just set on the ground and filled with good loose soil. When its time to harvest I just slide the pipes off and paw through the soil. You dont even need a shovel or fork. Works good for other plants also. Think of it as bottomless container gardening.green:thumbup:--KV
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I've heard of doing this with tires, too.
My buddy's brother tried the tire method... the idea is, the plant gets tall, you add another tire and more dirt. It gets taller, another tire, more dirt.
But nobody told him not to cover up all the green leaves with the new dirt. At the end of the season he had five tires high and a four-inch potato plant at the very bottom. :p
 
MSCantrell said:
I've heard of doing this with tires, too.
My buddy's brother tried the tire method... the idea is, the plant gets tall, you add another tire and more dirt. It gets taller, another tire, more dirt.
But nobody told him not to cover up all the green leaves with the new dirt. At the end of the season he had five tires high and a four-inch potato plant at the very bottom. :p
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Lol. That is funny.

I have heard that planting them works, but I wasn't sure that it worked or not. Thanks for sharing. :thumbup:
 
I tried tires but the roots kept getting stuck inside and made them hard to pull off. The storm drain pipe is slick inside. Slides right off.--KV
 
Interesting. I've done this with onions, they grow in no time at all. I just cut the growth off, and chop chive style at regular intervals. I wonder if this would work with instant potatos:D
 
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