WildCityWoman wrote:About growing 'beans' and stuff like that . . . in the spring, I put a half pack of dried soup mix in a large pot, watered it, and let it do it's 'thing'.

Great photos! It looks like you got some herb plants there. Did you figure out what they are? I never would have thought of planting a soup mix, but why not?
Will

Oh, it's peas, beans and like Thomas said - lentils.

I've since cut it all back and put some other stuff in the pot.

It was so long and messy it looked like a bad hair day. Next spring, I'll do it again, only I'll put them along a fence so they can climb all summer.