Where do you get your Pinto bean seeds?

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

I ask because every year Grandpa goes to the grocery store and buys the cheapest 1LB he can find and uses them. Every year (20+ years) and every year big crop.
I was dumbfounded when I discovered that he did this...year after year... bag beans...
BTW :9 :9

[chelaque liberal]

1. Dried beans are seeds.

Farmers have dried and saved their seeds to plant the following year for centuries. Unless the original seeds are hybrids the new crop will be just like their parents.

[ThomWV]

2. Southern States

[ebayfool]

3. Grocery store - I'm 'cheep' that way!

Put aside some for the garden & cook up the rest.

If in doubt, try sprouting in a jar. Sprout = viable.

My 'Dust Bowl Gramma' would rise up to kick my butt if I actually paid out cash for seeds that I could have for virtually free.

(btw)
I inherited her old seed collection when she died a few years ago. Some of them were reallllly old ... but dayum if they didn't still sprout! Spinach, corn, carrots, radish, tomatoes, poke salad - all kinds of varieties. That was a lesson in seed-saving for me. Most packets have far more seed than is practicable for my little patch of garden. Learning that seed wasn't so delicate (she had her treasures stored in old Folger's coffee cans that she lugged from Okla to Calif & had a viability far greater than expected - some were 15 years past their dates!) was a final gift from a woman that had spent 95 years learning & passing it on!

(One of her most evil lessons? Broadcast poke-salad seed all over the property if you're moving out on bad terms w/an arse of a landlord ... the stuff is indestructible & will reseed forever! Theoretically, of course.)

:evilgrin: