If you love them that much, then you should trade your extras at the Seed Exchange Forum. You'll save on gas and have have a much larger selection from your desktop.

Warning: It can be addictive!

You can divide your existing seed varieties into lots of at least 2 dozen and it costs less than a dollar to swap several varieties of seed. Even more worthwhile when they're heirloom!

If you don't have enough room where you are Ruthie, buy some more land and a good tractor and equipment and plant acres and acres of beans and peas. Catch some migrant workers coming by to pick them to sell.

You may not believe this story but honestly, I met a guy who became a good client and friend when I was a Realtor. He had started out as a pea farmer in one of the northern suburbs, would pick peas and sell them at the Farmers market on the fringe of downtown Dallas. He had a great idea to start buying and selling, things went well and some years later he owned one of the most thriving produce houses in the area.

His plan was to resell and make 50 cents on each container, whether it be a sack of onions, bushel of corn, bag of potatoes or what ever. At the time I came into contact with him, and have known him, (many years) he had anywhere from 8 to fourteen 18 wheelers from the valley backing up to his dock each day and unloading. He was supplying supermarket chains etc as well as individual restaurants, independent grocers etc. Can you imagine how many bags of onions, or crates of cucumbers an 18 wheeler will hold, or watermelons, etc. All from a few humble cow pea (as them yankees call our black eyes and purple hull peas) seed.

I have a few pods of those black eyes drying inside now, the ones still on the vine are trying to mildew in all this rain.
Bill P.