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Opened a few more bean pods, and I'm a bit baffled. As yet nearly ALL of them are white seeded and the few that aren't are a VERY pale purple. Given that EVERYTHING planted that has been harvested from was brown, brown with black streaks, or black (the white seeded ones haven't flowered yet, as...

I also saw a odd seed in some of the September 2025 batch of senna, which let to me getting the last three bags. Besides that seed (another of those white ones that looks a little like a peppercorn I haven't managed to get to germinate yet, I also got a few more wild soybeans and two more wild...

Harvested first common bean pod yesterday (and second today) haven't opened today's yet, but yesterday seems to be white seeds (despite coming from the mottled tan opt) so I guess they aren't done segregating. Actually, A LOT of the pods feel "hollow" indicating they are mostly finished), but I...

Two major updates 1.Some of the wild mungs are getting flowers (and even the start of a pod or two) so I should be able to get seed back well within the season. 2. One of the cornstalks is just beginning to get its tassel.

Problem is you never really know what is going to become a weed when you sow it. It took us years to get rid of the Japanese Lanterns, and the Peruvian Four O' Clocks. And I certainly didn't EXPECT that the senna seeds and rice beans I tossed our for the critters to eat would wind up hiding in...

As I mentioned, I have seen a double sized one, so they might be bigger in other places. But if they are flat, and an all over cream color, they're probably arvensis Well, I don't think red exists in the truly wild population, it's a bred color mutation. I was simply pointing I have noticed...

Well, my mead IS powerful...... And then there was the time I jacked a batch three times, winding up with a test tube full of something my cousin compared to the "homebrew" vodka he had encountered in Russia!

Nah, he just is drunk (here's what I am referencing)

If they're REALLY tiny (like pencil eraser sized*), that's V. arvensis, field pansy. Solid color for any of them is not all that uncommon. Pretty much anything you can find in a big pansy, you can find in a small viola (though, as I have mentioned, bright red is largely missing from the...

Well, I harvested the first two mature pods from off the "rice bean" and, surprise surprise, it's actually a mung bean plant! Well, I guess that explains where it came from and how it go there! (the pot of soil I was using had been inside for a while; a mung bean could have easily fallen in...

Probably. Could also be horned Pansy, Viola cornuta. To be honest, between the fact they cross pretty readily and have both be bred so much, telling when one is a cornuta or a tricolor is a little hard for me. That's certainly a very common color mix for Johnny Jump Ups. As far as I know the...

K, guess we'll find out what I have later.

I just realized the obvious, I can take a picture of the plant and post it to work out what it is! If you are growing it, and my plant looks like your plant, then I have what I think I have. Does this look right?

Given how many of my seeds failed this year due to age, I think I better plan to clear a LARGE area next year and re-generate the "sticky" chickpeas. They're getting pretty old. As much as I hate to do so, it may be in my interest to also push the mini glass gem grow-out forward ANOTHER year...

Reminds me of my plans to try and train mine to be OK with belly rubs (or rather, belly rubs when he is on his back or side, when he's standing, he has no problem with them). Once it gets cold I will start trying while wearing heavy padded winter gloves. Hopefully, eventually, he'll get used to...

Another sign it's on the pubescens side; they all also have black seeds, of varying blackness (I've seen ones where they were dirty tan) but whether those were underripe (a lot of rocotos are sold in mixed colors, so getting red, yellow, orange and so one from one packet is normal, And at a...

Actually, I think that IS what I am growing! I got it confused with the pseudo pepper from Japan I tried to grow LAST time, Turbocapsicum rhomboflexum . So what I have and what you have (assuming what I have is what I think I have) would be the same thing. So that's good, as I only have one...

7/7/24 1. There are now two fruits on one of the plants in the cherry tomato pot as well. Oddly though, (since I seem to recall planting the oval green cherry seeds) the fruits are round. Maybe I just grabbed all of the packets marked "green cherry tomatoes Westchester Farms (where I got the...