Lean, green, (can) has bean

Beans, beans, are good for your heart, The more you eat, the more you fart The more you fart, the better you feel, So eat some beans with every meal - Anon It's not often I will start with poetry, and even more rarely with such vulgar verse as this, but the well known poem …

The bean that was really a pea, and the happy little bacteria

fluffy asks: I say Dr, I’ve put broad beans in and they’ve gotten about 3″ out of the ground so far. Are they already putting nitrogen into the soil? Also, I was thinking of interplanting the rows of broad beans with parsnips. I put the parsnip seeds in deep seedling punnets in seed raising mix …