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That is very odd. I’ve grown the wild tomato Solanum pimpinellifolium and it didn’t protest at all at being in a pot. . It’s difficult...

3 new tomatoes sent to me from a preservation gardener in Germany, which I'm twirly bird thrilled are growing wonderfully and germinated...

my method is to give orders (that others laugh at me is a whole different issue :) )... yesterday i finished going through some more...

Or, as Hercule Poirot would name it: Order and method! :D

I usually have them in the ground by now but we've had too much rain. I actually had the best luck with peas purely by accident. I...

Same. Too early and they just stall, later planted ones will often do better because they never got that interruption in growth.

I had a similar experience with peas in 2020 @Blue-Jay . I planted peas in early May, a full month before the typical day for planting...

The way this weather has been this month of April. One day like summer the next day like winter again. We could be in for a tricky May...

Has nothing to do with my tiller width. I am using 48 inch wide weed barrier fabric this year. So I want to have a little open soil so I...

These are beans what William Woys Weaver the food historian wanted me to obtain for him. He tells me that Massey is a bush snap bean and...

I try not to rely on digital copies as I've had hard drives and devices fail and lost many, many things. I'm probably overly redundant...

I’ve used the same kind of labels and found them to be both waterproof and sun proof, and in a few cases I’ve used them for a few years...

Will the sun fade those tags to the point where they can't be read. Might not be a bad Idea to do a word processing file and type out...

overnight freezes/frosts still in our forecast for the next week. i don't plan on planting anything until it warms up a bit more.

please let us know what bean varieties you are growing or want to grow. :)