Practical plant advice from real gardeners
When something goes wrong with your plant, we’ve probably killed it too.
Bean Growing is written by Matt & Mariel: Amateur gardeners who have overwatered, underwatered, and misidentified their way through hundreds of plants so you don’t have to.
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Written by someone who has killed a lot of plants
Hi, We are Mariel & Matt. We started Bean Growing because we kept killing plants and couldn’t find honest, practical advice about why. We are not professionals, We are amateurs who got obsessed, made a lot of mistakes, and started writing them down.