Melon & cucumber seeds, if stored away from heat & humidity, have a long storage life - easily 5 years or more. If you store the seeds in a sealed container in the fridge, they should lose little to no viability. Several years ago, I planted 10-year-old cucumber seed (stored in a freezer bag at...
Don't mean to speak out of turn, but I'm guessing @digitS' cooks them as greens. In a previous garden (where they both hitchhiked in barnyard manure) those "weeds" were the first greens I harvested. Very tasty, although the texture of the lambs quarter takes a little getting used to. Highly...
I've had a lot of dreams like that... holding onto money or jewels, trying (unsuccessfully) to bring them back with me as I wake. Now they are dreams of my DW, hugging her intensely, and wishing the dream would never end. :hugs
Storms went through last night... no thunder, but really gusty winds. Still gusting hard today. This has been the windiest winter I can remember; it seems like strong winds every 3-4 days. It has blown my big rolling trash cans across the yard into my neighbor's cedars several times already...
Yes, ag fleece can be effective at preventing squash vine borer (among other pests). But for squash & other members of the gourd family, timing is everything. You need to cover the plants during the egg laying period, then uncover the plants to allow pollination. SVB is very bad here, and I've...
The two garden locations I would love to visit are Turkey, and India.
I've seen photos of street markets in Turkey, and would be obsessively sampling all of the olives, dates, & apricots that we never see here... so that visit would have to be timed for the harvest season. Then browsing through...