Welcome to TEG from Wisconsin, @Farmercharliesblog ! :frow
80 feet? In one hour??? Oh, if only you lived closer! 🤣 I can barely do that with a weed burner.
I too tend to get dehydrated overnight in Winter, so usually start with a pre-coffee coffee when I wake up. That might even be followed by a second coffee (post-pre?) if my motor stalls - which it often does. Retirement has its pitfalls. :lol: Then a diet shake mocha, whenever I get around to...
My favorite tomato - the only one I grow every year - is "Elfin". It is an OP grape tomato, with a determinate growth, heavily branched, with HUGE terminal flower clusters. Not much foliage, the massive number of green tomatoes may double as leaves. The flavor is not that sweet, but very meaty...
I'll bet it's beautiful there (sigh). When DW & I first got married, we lived in the Puget Sound. Spectacular scenery, between the ocean & mountains (but poor gardening weather). Now I have good soil, and better weather, but the land around here is flat unless I drive an hour away. Tradeoffs...
Downsize my garden, to strike the best balance between needs & wants. Trying something new every year is still a 'need'.
Focus more on what I share, than on what I save.
Do some experimentation with companion gardening (and hopefully find a companion to assist :fl).
Well, the photo below is my entire 2024 dry bean crop. It actually amazed me to get anything at all, given that the weather & other factors prevented me from planting until mid-July.
Clockwise from upper left: "Murasaki" adzuki; "Woods Mountain Crazy Bean" (bush bean); "Yancheng Bush" yardlong...