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The best, simplest dietary philosophy I ever heard was: "Eat like a deer, not like a cow." Deer browse on a variety of different plants, while cows will graze on a single thing until full. We are healthier when our diet is diversified; too much of any one thing can be unhealthy, regardless of...

It does ruin the crop, especially if you are growing sweet corn. Hard to eliminate from a garden site too, if the spores are allowed to break free. Varieties with tighter husks are less likely to get infected. Shorter varieties, with ears closer to the ground, are more vulnerable. Anyone who...

Soil & climate can cause some variation. The colors will most likely darken with time.

Much different. I started gardening very young (my first beans when I was 5 YO) but only grew beans, cukes, carrots, and beets. My grandparents (who started my interest in gardening) grew mostly root vegetables, beans, cabbage, and some tomatoes. When I started gardening as an adult, I added...

I think everyone who collects beans has had at least one encounter with buggy seed. For me, once from exchanged seed, TWICE with commercial seed (from two well-known heirloom seed sellers :rolleyes:). Fortunately, I always quarantine new seed, so the infestation was contained. I was only able to...

Looks like that might have crossed with an ornamental gourd... or one of my naked-seeded pumpkins.

I use 20-30 feet between different varieties, with other flowering plants between. Those could be long-blooming flowers which are good nectar or pollen sources (such as zinnia, cosmos, or flowering mallow). You can also use flowering vegetables, like cucumbers, squash, luffa, bitter melon, and...

Yes, I've gotta admit there is a seductive appeal to beans. It all started with that original Bean Dealer, who sold Jack those magic beans. Obviously we haven't changed much since then... still trying to pawn off exotic beans to the unsuspecting. :lol:

@ducks4you , not my thread; but the same one where I posted about garlic dehydration. In the Veggie sub forum.

The description seems to indicate a 'porcelain type'; the numerous rice-like bulbils formed on the scape are very distinctive. As @Branching Out mentioned, seeing a whole bulb - peeled but unbroken - would be helpful. I posted a photo of one of my porcelain garlics, German White, in the Fruit &...

For me, the question isn't whether my mail is moving (it is) but whether it gets to me. It's comical (in a dark humor kind of way) how often my neighbors & I meet to exchange mail - despite our complaints to the PO about this. There seems to be an inverse relationship between the ever increasing...

The problems I have with some of those small online sellers are: (a) they tend not to stay in business very long, (b) they sell the "seed du jour", and have no long-term interest in preservation, and (c) they are too often more focused on short-term profit, than on seed quality. The seed purity...

I don't think I ever grew shallots, although I might have without knowing it. I grew several heirloom multiplier onions, and the larger ones (which might have been shallots) were not winter hardy in my climate. There might be a gray hazy line between shallots & potato onions. There were two...

Walking onions can form small bulbs if grown in good conditions, but the bulbs are too small - and store too poorly - to be very useful. The bulbs might make a potent onion powder though if dehydrated. Walking onions are almost always used as scallions, and are exceptionally good for that...

Just one variety, although the two terms are often used synonymously. I grow several others, including Catawissa (which is also fairly common in garden circles) and a few other heirlooms. A few of the heirlooms have white bulbils (much smaller than the red or tan bulbils) and are correspondingly...

Yes, the frames are constructed of plastic conduit. They are 24 inches (roughly 60 cm) high, with smooth corners (the 3-way corners had to be ordered). I chose the plastic conduit because it is smooth & unlikely to tear the cover during strong winds. To anchor the cover, it is buried on 3 sides...

Not per se. They are perennial onions, grown primarily for use as scallions. They form only small (but very pungent!) bulbs at the base, which divide every year. The "flower" stalks form clusters of small bulbils, which will root when the stalks fall over... hence, 'walking'. Those bulbils will...

Better than store bought... and you know their parents. :D

BTW, regarding crosses. For several years, I grew all of the caged peppers in the same area, separated by just 36 inches. I assumed that by excluding insects, there was no danger of crossing. Years later, when growing that seed for renewal, that assumption was proven wrong. Half of the 10 cages...

In my experience, pepper flowers (or at least those belonging to C. annuum) are self-pollinating, and don't need insects. They might not need much if any stimulation to set either. When growing peppers for seed, I enclose the plants in plastic cages (covered by the lightest grade of spun...