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Does she really sleep like that!? 😂 The woman in the video, what she's describing in dog training lingo is called 'working under threshold'. It is super popular in the circles right now. So much I'd love to say about that lol, but, it's much like my daughter at 3 years old when I forced her...

Do you ever see sclerotinia on your pole vines? That is something that I have to watch out for with all my bean plants, pole and bushes, because for whatever reason my yard is a bit prone to that. I'm a bit hemmed in I suppose. I feel like I have to give the plants a little extra room for air...

With all the stuff I want to grow each year I feel like I'm always forgetting something(s), and I do. Bluejay sent me these favas 2 seasons ago and I've really wanted to grow them, but they kept slipping from my mind. Somehow, I remembered this year! I believe these were from Joseph Simcox's...

@Rillowen here is an interesting website where I've learned quite a lot about perennial vegetables. She amazes me with her dedication to growing perennial veg and finding creative ways to use them, as so many have fallen out of favor. I got some alliums from her once and a few others things...

So...it turns out the perennial pansies I planted are not actually *perennial*, but they do re-seed themselves enthusiastically. I planted only 2 last year. 😂 I did not getting to sowing my Canterbury Bells despite buying seeds, but I got lucky and found one at the garden centre! I planted it...

I honestly don't think it needs to be complicated. I'm not sure about mixing trees in there even if they fruit because almost all annual edible crops need a lot of sun, though certainly a separate area for fruit trees is possible. Someone a few blocks over, who has a rather tiny front yard, has...

This is what I'm doing with my front yard, a mostly edible landscape with a smattering of some extra pretty perennials & annuals. I've got about half the lawn, maybe 2/3 replaced with food plants. Even the corn is going up front this year, I'm pretty excited. It is the most fun garden...

I didn't realize that you're supposed to eat them when they are more yellow/white, not when they're red! Well, there goes my excuse! I guess I can't hide anymore behind eating this sweet corn because it's healthier. :lol:

I've seen it written both ways and always wondered why the spelling may be different.

I'm surrounded by millions of them, and they are a really ubiquitous tree in my city generally, almost like weeds. The city employees regularly chop them down on the sides of the roads too, and just leave them there. Last year I scooped up a few of those, easier than me cutting them down...

Oh wow, I didn't realize you don't use a sledge! I'm surprised a carpenter's hammer will drive in your posts! Well, that's good to know. If I ever do decide that the sapling method is too much work, I'm glad that there is another single pole method of installation possible for me to do. I...

Went to the garden centre yesterday...bad idea! Wound up with more lovely plants I felt I couldn't walk away from - a bunch of celeriac, some pretty petunias, (I'm capping myself at 2 large baskets and one small one, the deadheading just gets too much if I go over that) & a parsley since I...

My preferred way is to use a 5 foot scaling bar, the sort that was used in the mines in the olden days, looks like this on the bottom I drive it down into the ground several times until I'm 2 feet deep (I put tape on the bar to mark the depth) and do wide circles to open the top of the hole...

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The man did some seriously fine breeding work. Amazing stuff. I'm a huge fan too.

I have 2 packets of Hooker's, maybe I'll grow it next year! I do love the colored sweet corns. I also really really want to grow Lofthouse's Astronomy Domine (spelling?). The seeds I bought for it were cruds. I have grown one sorta blue corn, kinda purple-blue I guess, called Blue Jade.

I'm growing Ocimum tenuiflorum this year too @Pulsegleaner. I'm not even sure why really. It's time I stop fibbing to myself that I'll make tea with it, I never do. But a good smell carries a lot of value to me in an annual so there's that. I envy your knowledge of oregano. I'd like to...

That is so neat about the 'Ice Saints'! :love

After some experimentation, I feel like the most productive and also easiest, least laborious way to grow pole beans is up single vertical poles. I tried @Blue-Jay 's method but using little saplings instead of lumber. I drive them in 2 feet and they're good to go. I've never had one fall...

Rain. Lots of rain, but tomorrow looks good at 16C/61F . Feeling some hope right now.