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I wish we had those freedoms @Alasgun, hopefully someday. Here, if someone breaks into your home you have no legal right to protect yourself, let alone against a dog. Because this isn't the first time its happened, I consulted with animal control about it years ago and alas no options that...

Well, yesterday life presented this wannabe shelter dog trainer with an unpleasant reality. I've been so focused on acquiring dog skills the last 5 years, thinking I'd gain enough knowledge and skills. And I crashed headlong into a major limitation I have. Yesterday on a walk with the kids &...

@Blue-Jay I don't know if it's realistic to ask you this since you have so many limas in your huge collection, but just off the top of your head, is there any that come to mind as being especially early? Or do you think that they're all, more or less, just a late maturing species? I have...

This week is the last one for ordering seeds! 2026 is gonna be some fun. I have gotten enough packs of sweet pea flower seeds to last me for a few years! But I was on a kick with them, and there seemed a bunch of new ones out and I felt like it was now or never. Small seeds shops seem to...

Draper's Glen :love. Something about beans with that faint speckle makes me swoon. :th

There was hope, for a moment, of seeing asphalt once again. And today I woke to half a foot of snow and a symphony of snow blowers at work. Winter storm warning in effect, so much more to come.

I think I've decided that I will request some network beans from you this year. I sat on the fence about it, but I re-checked with my friend who helped me with sending the 2025 networks back to you and he says that it would be easier than slicing cheese to do now. So, I'm feeling a little more...

The slight defrost we had and then a hard deep freeze has turned all the side streets into craterous ice roads, the worst I've seen. Very hard to navigate. There was just so much snow this winter I guess it was bound to happen. Today they actually graded the ice covering the road leaving a...

I'm a big fan of the Coral bean too! That lovely assortment of warm, harmonious shades. I've had quite a few people request that bean from me, it's a hit! @Blue-Jay did any of your more northern growers have success with the Pink Tip Greasy bean last year? I saw it listed on a site at a...

I lifted that photo from a website that sells that bean, can't remember the name of it, but I got lucky that they had a photo of a bed of them. Not a super common thing to see on a seed website! Well, it's good to know there won't be any surprises.

That's what I thought, one site says they're much like Jacob's Cattle. This is a picture of a field of them, so you may be right @Blue-Jay, these down look like 100% true bushes? What do you think?

I didn't realize that there were any bean seeds that look just like the Cave Bean in a bush habit, but the packet of UC Southwest Red is a bush. I only opened them tonight, that was surprising.

I learned something tonight about some beans that I've seen around, something I've always wondered. There's a company that sells Italian seeds, I've seen them all the years I've been gardening, quite common on the racks in spring. Many of them have 'marconi' in the name somewhere. That had me...

I'm pretty excited about the 2026 carrot line up! I ordered quite a lot of packets all of which came in this week, exciting stuff! I have quite a color selection, some repeats from last year that I loved and some all new ones. I read a really great review of 'Gniff' carrots by a seed saving...

Some new beans arrived this week, the runners are called Wynona’s Big Brown and the mixed ones are called Harvest Moon. I decided to try a few limas this year, the earliest varieties I could find.

Is Romaine your favorite lettuce @Alasgun? It's my #1 go to in the grocery store, but I don't think I've ever tried it in the garden. I was in my seed stash last night and noticed I have seeds for a red romaine.

Tomorrow it will actually rise above freezing to 2C/36F, hallelujah!! Feels like Christmas Eve tonight. I'm always grateful for spring, but this winter is a whole new level of anticipation. It's still going to drop back down Sat night to -34C/-29F, but I'll take what I can get in the...

SO true ducks. Dogs really do learn so well from another dog showing them the ropes!

I was once forced to grow beans under lights for 2 weeks due to a spell of unexpected bad weather. One time isn't much to draw a conclusion but what I observed with mine was the grow light fluorescents were not strong enough and the bean stems elongated far too much really quickly. I think if...