Category: "Crops"

Elmoro Beans: 2024

May 21st, 2024

Elmoro Dwarf Beans ~ Soaking, Potting and Planting out

Elmoro beans are similar in shape and colour to the Trail of Tears beans, the later being darker, black and a little shorter maybe ??

Before &after soaking. Graph larger squares of 1cm

August 18th: A few weeks all the tops were eaten, I think by a rabbit.

May 16th: NEW BUY: Soaking 21 | May 18th: 21/21 ·
May 19th: Think 1 was eaten 20/21 · | May 21st: Think I have found the 'eaten' 1 �
May 25th: 7/21 🌱
' May 26th: 1/14 | May 27th: 2/14
May 27th: 10/21 🌱
May 29th: Looks like the rest are not going to make it. Will check in the 'pots' tomorrow :)
May 30th: Found 2 that may technically | be | biologically alive, but their ability to grow will be seen as both were planted out. So that's 12/21 🌱 ✅

Second lot

June 6th: Soaking 20 beans
June 9th: · 12/20 | June 10th: 15/20 | June 14th: 17/20 ✅
June 15th: ' 5/17
June 16th: 🌱 6/17 | June 17th: 7/17 | June 18th: 9/17 | June 19th: 11/17 | June 20th: 13/13 ✅

Third lot

June 20th: Soaking remaining 21 beans
· June 22nd: 13/21| June 23rd: 15/21

Trail of Tears

First lot

May 6th: Soaking 15 beans that Teph (Steve Dobbie) brought from California USA
May 9th: They are sprouting so · and made bed for them. ✅
May 10th: Erected canes but will have to protect as not within 'the fence'
May 14th: ' 11/15
May 16th: 14/15 🌱 Couldn't find the 15th in the pot, but there were a few that looked a bit off.
May 19th: One died-rotted maybe too much heat under a container. 13/15 🌱 ✅
Jun 9th: 12/13 still alive.
Aug 18th: Forgot to mention the deer ate most of the growth but I have since 'encaged' them and they are producing, maybe only enough to sow again next year.

Beans are not black as I thought they would be.

On the small side and magenta
Sept 12: Picked a few to eat, some were a bit stringy

110g fresh to eat.

I made some pasta today from home cultivated wheat and maize. The grinding is a bit rough which you see in the image below. The image is the second half of today's test the other half cooked after resting for maybe an hour max. That in the image will be left for a few days to dry.