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you're in a place with much milder winters than what we get here. i do have pretty good luck growing Green Beauty peas into August here...

lovely! :)

Peas are a cool weather crop though. They don’t like summer heat as they’re prone to mildew when it gets hot and dry. I grow them as an...

I love how perfectly organized they are! A true art form! 😍

These are not all the beans I have to grow, but they're a fun representation of what I received recently.

Some more recent bean mail. This is a beautiful bean I ran across about two weeks ago. From a grower in Pescadaro, California. The...

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...