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Well, the time has come to spill some beans so to speak, lol. I'm a believer in the adage 'where your attention goes, grows' so I really make an effort in life to focus on the positive. Thus, I didn't want to be on the thread here hashing out my challenges this year, and sinking energy into it...

Seems like many of us are having plentiful rain this year, that is a lot of water in 30 minutes. I haven't watered my main bean garden yet this summer yet, except for when I put the transplants in and I spot watered with a can. When it rained early this week I had long puddles left in my...

I truly am not one to get thrilled about *pretty garden pictures* given how ubiquitous they are all over social media (and I admittedly enjoy the more science side of the garden when it comes to online content) but I must say, this instagram account is pretty jaw dropping. Her deference to...

WOW! That radicchio looks like a gladiolus!!! I'm blown away by that. Always something new to learn about in the plant world! Will it look like this for you in the first year that you plant it? I have no idea about radicchio, but I thought I had read years ago in a Martha Stewart book that...

One of the symptoms I read of vascular collapse in beans is wilting, but in my case there was none of that. The plants were perfectly healthy. What's left of them now even still looks good. All my googling seems to point to sunscald or overwatering. So, between the heat and all the rain that...

I've had 2 in a row of 6 bushes do this, rare ones. What you describe is exactly what happened, they were growing wonderfully, leaves were smooth and healthy, vigor normal, and then this week the growing tips/newest growth turned brown and died. Just out of the blue after about 6 weeks of...

Me too @flowerbug, I think we have similar weeding practices with scraping the soil so as to prevent drawing up more weeds seeds from beneath. But despite being out scraping about every 2nd day, the little ones just keep coming up. I can't remember ever seeing this much purslane, I've barely...

I want one of those!

I find it much more common to have a random bean plant fail to thrive than most other vegetables. It's like they have quite variable genetics plant to plant, and so there is more chance of a weak plant showing up in a bunch. I find peas like that as well. Lots of plants if they manage to...

I had the most incredible success getting my 'Rebhuhnauge' plant out of it's pot today!!!!:celebrate At first I didn't think the scissors would cut the thick pot, but in fact they sailed through it like a hot knife in warm butter. I couldn't believe how easy it was to cut down the sides and...

They truly are a tiny variety! Very cute! What do you think it was that was knocking the plants off? I ask because I had a similar thing happen with the mini-dwarfs 'Fat Frog' this year. It was odd, I lost all but 2 seedlings in the end. A friend once mentioned to me about micros that they...

The weather since June has been AMAZING. I mean, a little hot for the humans, but solid heat in the high 20's low 30's (C) and a good rain weekly. I've mostly been watering the potted plants and greenhouse, I've barely watered the in-ground gardens. That is some seriously good luck! All the...

Delphinium time. 🎉 I went looking today at a few greenhouses for the light blue one. Nada. :( This is the first year where I think I may need to divide the clumps. I can't tell if it's the rain we had that's made them lean so much or the crowns are just too large now. These are old plants.

:lol: Hilarious. Given that I increasingly fall under the umbrella of #5, I'd offer up that the 3rd action instead would be protect my two cows from other people wanting 4 cows. lol

@Blue-Jay could you see the names on the tags of all the network beans in the last post? I realized after that maybe they might be too small in the pictures, I can go back and type the name above the photo if you couldn't. Network bean plants 2024 & 2025 continued.... Olga's Yugoslavian, two...

Well, I do live in the world's largest integrated mining complex; nine operating mines, two mills, two smelters, a nickel refinery, and over 300 mining supply and service companies so the answer to that is probably a yes. That said we also have the second tallest smoke stack in the world after...

Years ago I did a test of sideways vs deeper planting with a couple varieties and the sideways planted tomatoes were considerably bigger in a month's time, and flowering more quickly. I think the main reason side planting seems to speed things up is increased warmth in the upper layers of soil...

In my case @Decoy1 I'm not really after vigor so much as I am speed, especially in years like this where we had such cold temperatures until June. Growing outdoors, if I have any set backs like an early fall or a late start to summer (and heaven forbid if those two happen in the same year) I...

Will do a photo dump of the network beans so you can see how they're all doing. This is a mixture of the 2024 ones that were fails as well as the 2025 ones. Might take a couple days to get through them all. The variation in heights is a bit mind boggling! Most of them are just starting to...

No, they've been there for a decade I think. But what got me thinking about the rain barrels was a few years ago I noticed by chance, and at a certain angle that characteristic 'rainbow' sheen of drop of gas on water in one of them. And I mentioned to DH that maybe the barrels got contaminated...