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Only one thing to report (and it's not in my garden). Last evening we ordered in Greek for dinner, so I took the opportunity to return to that wild pear tree and get some riper fruits (about nine or ten of them). While collecting I noticed something. Either there are two pear trees...

EXACTLY what I meant. You didn't mention that bit before. With that name, web searches can be done to see things like conditions of the plant ripening.

Liberia, not Libya. And the ones I sent were reddish or brownish, not tan.

I'd be a lot easier if we knew the scientific name of them, then we could do some web research. God, I wish I was still back at Cornell and had access to the files at the Ag Station at Geneva; I remember them once photocopying me some publication that listed the vetches by seed shape. But it's...

Same. In fact, I'm not 100% sure the seed was ripe when I collected it. The pods had browned up, but when the seed dried down, it went all browny blotchy (as opposed to the black speckled brown they were when planted) and I usually associate that color with seriously immature seed that is...

Looks like another potential snag. Not only has the probably flat pea only made one flower, but, looking from the side, it looks like the produced pod is only going to have one viable seed! (I can see the bumps of the developing seeds through the side at this point, and only one seems to be...

The seed from the green grape looking tomatoes is now drying for storage. I was right, there isn't a lot of it. The smaller one had no viable seeds AT ALL (of course, it DID fall off the plant when it was only about half size) and the only only had about ten or so that were fully formed. I'll...

Actually it refers to this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_Diogenes_-_Walters_37131.jpg Even today the mental disorder where a person lives in clutter and filth and does not really notice this as a problem is called Diogenes Syndrome.

For the classically minded

Nothing new in harvest, but a bit of a surprise. Looks like we had a visitor recently. When I went to check on the cucumbers, I noticed there is a shed snakeskin trapped in the mesh! I guess the snake (most likely a Common Garter Snake, that's the commonest type here I think, and the skin was...

I could be. I seem to recall the green tomatoes I got these seeds from tasting pretty bad last year, so maybe they vary based on conditions. And to repeat, I just don't like THIS one, the cherries are fine. Though some sort of bug apparently DOES like them; most of them have at least one...

Tried the Open Minded Tomato tonight. It's OK, but in terms of green when ripe ones, I like the cherry I'm growing a lot better (still no idea what kind it is, but i DO like it better). Also, it turns out that it is not a perfect "deceptor", or, at least, not always. On two of the three I have...

Beginning to wonder if the "normal" wild mung beans are making flowers, or I just have some other odd ones in there. I can't seem to see where the tendrils with the flowers attach to the upright bits, so they could be two different sets of plants (it's a bit too dense in there to see, and I...

Other more "normal" plants in the wild mung bean pot have flowers as well now. More or less the same place (I suppose it is the difference between being a bush and a vine type).

Managed to taste a fragment of one of the Phantome du Laos today (the first two got some REALLY serious rot spots*, so eating most of either would have been impossible). To be honest, I doubt I'll grow this one again next year. The color may be interesting, but it doesn't seem to taste of much...

1. Flowers on odd mung bean have opened. They ARE yellow, which is normal for the group (though with a brownish cast that is a bit unusual,) but the placement is odd; mungs tend to put their flowers on short stems coming out from between leaf nodes; not on long whippy tendrils (then again, mungs...

It's a shrimp (he's making popcorn shrimp). Though I think those are the same Muppets they used as lobsters on the Muppet Show episode.

No, simply because I know were I planted all of the tinga pea seeds, and this was transplanted from somewhere else.

OK, the mystery vine flower has opened. It almost looks like Tinga (though smaller) but I know that the seeds you sent me were the first Tinga seeds I ever grew. Also picked the Laos tomato. Edit: Looks like it might be Lathyrus sylvestris, except that's supposed to have groups of...