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I completed my first course in scent detection this week - and it was awesome! DD & I learned so much, we got lucky that this trainer actively competes, so she really knew her stuff. So many great takeaways; one thing that really stuck was the realization that scent detection is unlike most...

To my astonishment, I believe I've killed 2 of the clematis. I know exactly how I did it too. I loved them to death. Feeling so eager to have them flourish, I suspect I overdid everything. I'm used to being so neglectful of perennials that treating them with care is new to me. Well, learning...

Well, I plucked up the courage and planted my extras tonight. This year I had 2 bean sets per variety, so if something happened to one bean planting I had a back up waiting. I've been a bit worried about rabbits, and fenced off one garden where it's possible, but been either covering plants...

I am just loving my first ever white perennial poppies! And my first clematis bloom this year! A day of white!

I'm growing Taiyo this year too, I planted a whole bed of them! And the other one is Lemon Sorbet, very close to Lemon Queen! 😂

I'm growing Juanita Smith this year and I'm shocked at how delicate the plants are! Can anyone confirm if this is an exceptionally dainty pole bean, or a semi-runner?

Very nice @Bluejay! 😍 I was going to ask how your garden was going! Your transplants all look really beautiful. Did you seed all the beans you're growing this year in pots first? Given your drought, it's a good thing you have so many transplants. I don't find bean seeds take very kindly to...

Bush beans! So glad I decided to still do transplants with them, I was tempted to direct seed this year. Got all the poles in now too, just a few little adjustments to be made tomorrow (aka see where else I can jam in a few more poles and plants :) Both thrilled and relieved to have the...

My new pea protection. It's amazing how fast the starts are taking off, since I took this photo a week or so ago many have already gotten through the wire. Pea transplants are truly awesome. I'm SO excited about this year's peas, such a great line up thanks to @Decoy1 and @Triffid 💚💚💚! I...

Adventures with a dog. At some point I feel like I should make a post about the last month, and how important pet health insurance can be. Mostly because I don't have any. And vet clinics really have changed in a big way, it's so much more corporatized. Some of the diagnoses are 3rd party now...

So I changed course a little with the bean plans, and decided to put the bush bean transplants in today. I'll be so busy tomorrow doing pole bean transplants, I thought why not put them in today, because I can cover them with pots anyway for this cold night. Weather network is not warning of...

The They do, not quite to white but very pale pink. When they're born they are deeply, luxuriously pink & gorgeous tho. 🥰

Stump progress! Last ones standing, soon to be gone too! Pressure blasting the roots and then making strategic cuts.

All the 2025 network beans are up and growing, and now I wait until Friday to plant them in the gardens. Tomorrow night the temps go to 4C/39F degrees, with clear skies, so a little too risky to plant tomorrow. Everything else is growing where it needs to, now just the beans and that's it! So...

Adventures in clematis, and other perennials. I would never have guessed that clematis could grow so quickly. The plants I bought last spring were very tiny, and yet 2 out of 3 still managed to eek out a tiny number of flowers by the end of the summer. Foliage was still very sparse though...

This is a very good idea @digitS', and remarkable that they could be timed together like that with one from seed and one arriving with years of growth behind it. I wish I had thought of the 'back up' transplants idea years ago, I'm quite late to the idea. Or to have transplants of any kind...

Started putting in the pea transplants today, which I must say came along very nicely in the cell trays. Some of the roots were incredibly long as I pulled each cell out. As I was looking at all these tidy little precious starts, all of the varieties super rare to nonexistent in Canada, I...

Looks like nemesia to me. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ballfloraplant.com%2FProducts%2FDetails%2F%3Fphid%3D043904405010185&psig=AOvVaw1vynQVz_cHjqHlShklX4EH&ust=1749443937253000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBcQjhxqFwoTCJDSs9WA4Y0DFQAAAAAdAAAAABAU

So many good dishes using dried beans...I really like a white bean 'hummus', where you don't use raw garlic but instead roast a whole bulb with the top cut off, and a tsp of olive oil added to the top. The roasted garlic goes into the white beans and gets whizzed together with salt and whatever...

What a beginning to the gardening year. :th We went from winter to summer very late in the season, with so little time/heat/sunshine to get transplants ready. That was a major setback. And then the dog had a major health crisis, which has not been easy to deal with as he's needed 24/7 care...