having moved this year from the snow belt to the bean belt of michigan, i plan on growing more pole beans. i'd like to try some longer season varieties that i hesitated to try in the keweenaw. i have a red streaked bean from my great uncle steve that has been limping along in the U.P.. i was down to just a half dozen or so seeds. i'm up to 30 seeds now, and would really like to increase that number. i also want to try some yard long beans, and some edamame. i expect to have good crops of winter squash, and much better luck with melons, and watermelons than i did up north. i put in some black berry bushes this fall, and would like to add raspberry, currents, and strawberrys too. there are deer, and rabbits in the immediate area to be dealt with. i also still need to establish the garden. we moved to sandusky the end of october, and just didn't have the time and weather to plow up a patch.
thats some initial thoughts.
keith
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