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How did it get to be the end of May already?? Well, the first batch of Frost and Andikove are up, but I have decided to put them each in a giant driveway pot as a reserve. Just in case the second wave in the ground gets eaten by rabbits or cutworms or whatever found its way inside one of the...

We are dry, dry, dry here. One of my colleagues at work put in his tomatoes this weekend but I am still being cautious. Also I haven’t had time to move the tomato trellis yet! :D I have only once managed to get the peas in at the right time, when I planted them in a giant pot on the driveway...

The beans arrived! The temperature reached 80 today and highs will be in the 70s all week. And just a few days ago I had to bring all my tomato seedlings in for a night in the 30s.

oh, you are right, I did not look closely enough. Well, more room on the trellises then. I assume the beans that were popular for planting by plow were bush beans, so that makes sense if they were becoming popularly farmed in the late 1700s. Amelia Simmons says: “The Clabboard Bean, is...

This is Hastings, Minnesota, USA on the Mississippi River, a little south of St Paul. Not named after the famous Hastings of 1066 but supposedly one of the many places named after Henry Hastings Sibley, who was the first state governor. I was poking around trying to find how to put my location...

hello! I have just joined up after reading through this and the 2024 bean thread. I will be growing out a couple of beans too. It is great to see some familiar names here and there from the Gardenweb and other forums back in the day. I think maybe Tomatoville too. Cheers, Susanne