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Envelopes are not a problem; I can get all of the coin envelopes (which are pretty much seed packets anyway) from any Staples. As for upright, that's sort of what I am doing as well, thought I am using an empty plastic soup container (fewer packets). I also have the option of using little...

We have reached what I would think of as a "lingering" period in the gardens. Everything's MOSTLY over, but some plants are still trying to eke out a little more before giving up the ghost. The problem with this is it sort of puts a pause on some of the finishing up for some things. For...

My personal opinion is that pretty much all addictions in life are based on a single nearly universal addiction; addiction to pleasure. And that one is SO universal that our society doesn't just normalize it, in ENCORAGES it, and, nowadays makes its pursuit the more or less end all be all of...

I've been here, I've just been on other threads (like the gardening ones). Plus, there hasn't been much to say. The fine tea supply at my usual site has been sort of meagre (whether due to the economic mess in China, or people snapping it up before I see it, I do not know). I suppose I WILL...

I've a few that are even smaller than that, but yeah, below that, you sort of reach the size where the utility of growing them becomes questionable. On the flip side, I have seen some sort of Azuki that made seeds the size of pinto beans (I just wish I remembered where.)

Further garden updates Tomatoes are winding down. I suppose. There's a few left out there (a couple of green and pink cherries) but everything else is in and, at this point in the year, unless we have a VERY mild fall/winter, the odds of any new fruit showing up is remote, so what few flowers...

A common bean, we established that as soon as I got it. It's just one that is too day length sensitive for someone as north as me to grow (quite possibly for anyone in the US to grow outdoors.)

I didn't say you did, I said you originally thought Ice Cream Sandwich was one. That's why you offered it to me (I was working with Lablabs at the time.)

So did Ice Cream Sandwich; that's why you initially thought it was a lablab bean.

And yet another surprise this morning. I harvested two of the last 3 Phantome du Laos tomatoes yesterday, as they were basically ripe. I did notice a slight blush on one, but I didn't think much of it. This morning, I look again, and the blushed one is now clearly turning pink! So we either have...

Looks like there may be more to that "hybrid" pear that I thought. I looked over the bag I was storing all of the fruit I collected in, and, while all of the other "normal" pears had rotted completely, that one is still as intact as when I picked it (barring a wrinkle or two) Whatever genes it...

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On again. Off again. Gone again. - Finnegan.

Make that FIVE kernels. I cleared some more this morning and found two more ears with one kernel each (the yellow one was so deep in that I wasn't sure until I got the last husk layer off if I was feeling a kernel or a node in the stem). At least it looks like I still have the mangenta in the...

Tasted first "formal" "cucumber" today (the first one's stalk died early, causing premature ripening, so that was not a valid assessment.) For a "cucumber" that isn't really a cucumber (it's a cucumber melon, I assume), it DOES have a decent cucumber flavor. However, I'm definitely going to...

Neither have I. If I see those stripes (I usually think of them as "rays" to differentiate them from the longitudinal stripes. I tend to assume lima. This is particularly important for a few ones I have found/ seen which were missing other traditional lima bean qualities (such as seed shapes...

I don't believe it! I was pulling out some of the dead corn stalks today (both to give the still living ones more room and have the dead ones dried out in time to be Halloween decorations, and I actually DID get an ear. It's just one, and there's only three kernels (oddly, it looks like there...

Lucky day hunting yesterday. Picked up a few more rice bean bags (my lunch spot was right next door). Not only did I add a bit to my supply of red with mottle, tan, cream, tan with mottled etc., I actually found one or two that seem to be legitimately black, which is a MUCH rarer to find seed...