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RE: Can you grow beans from Dried Grocery Store beans?
When I first started gardening I had heard people talk about success with this... BUT only if you use organic seeds from the produce dept. Well, I attempted it.. No luck.
I stick with buying heirloom seeds... maybe I wasn't experienced enough at the time but... curious who else has had success and can share pics of it.
I don't have any pics, because I never thought about ever blogging on the subject. But I have grown from grocery store. I will admit however, that most of what I have now in my seed stock, is seed of what I have grown over and over for the past 40 some odd years.
Things have changed a lot but I still think it is viable from at least some of the store bought ones. If they have not been irradiated. When we were infected with pantry moths, I had to throw out several hundred pounds of beans. This was when I learned to make sure containers were hard plastic and air tight.
But as I was dumping them in the garbage can outside, many of them fell to the ground. It was raining and I was trying to hurry so I did not pick them up. Several days later many of them had sprouted. Almost all of the beans I had at that time were grocery store variety, specifically Sams Club brands because of how cheap they were.
I would be interested to hear other peoples experiences. Plus I think I will grab a bag or two from my local Kroger and do a test run, take photos and all of that. Perhaps others could do it with brands from their area and we could see if some brands work better than others.