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I've 2 lots of beans in now. I think by next week I'll have my recent bean orders in and can get more inground. When it was up in the 80's a couple weeks ago I planted Scarlet Runner Beans and Good Mother Stallard. Mother was up a couple days ago but then we had rains and temps have dropped to...

What did you use for a barrier. I suppose I could use some of my deer fence netting.....??? We had a game camera up last summer and saw opossums and bunny rabbits in garden as well as a ground hog den showed up. Never saw the ground hog on camera.

What is the growing season like there? I've only ever driven across 600 miles of Kansas cornfields on the interstate!

It sounds like you might be investing in overhead misters and shadecloth to keep the temps low enough to pollinate tomatoes and beans.... when our temps in NW Ohio get over 85, our tomatoes either drop blossoms or just sit there doing nothing until temps come down, then they set fruit. Good luck...

On the jam, boil it down more. Reducing the liquid will really help it solidify. Don't can it until it's thick on the back of a cold spoon. Meanwhile it makes GREAT basting sauce on pork loins. I never figured to bake with it but ended up with 'grapesauce'. Amazing how much those grape vines can...

Garden fun... where are you gardening on this planet? One thing about the internet is I've met folks from Japan to the Falkland Islands to Alaska as it all depends on what time you are awake and online. So garden advice gets confusing if you don't know where... I'm in NW Ohio, pretty rural here...

I've only spent brief times in Arizona, usually at the end of the hot season. Is the mountain area kinder on temps?

I spent 17 years in East SF Bay area, Union City, with about 300 growing days. We could grow plums and strawberries, beans, roses, and a salsa garden, heavy clay soils, in the heart of humanity. Glad to have you here!

Love that name and love my bean dip... just south of you in NW Ohio. Still learning how to garden, been at it for 55 years. Every time I move it's a new microclimate, new soil, different seasons/weather... great to have you here!!

I visit Castle Rock, CO twice a year and daughter is trying backyard gardening. She's gone to half barrels for her Colo wildflowers, a short raised bed about 6 inches high for her Cosmos seed and put in 3 tall raised beds and finally has them producing. Between the clay and small dogs that dig...

Plant daikon radish, let it grow, then as it nears maturity, chop the tops down and tarp it. Let it rot 2 weeks. Now you can plant it with crops. That's how the market gardeners handle clay. This radish is much larger than a big carrot and nicely opens the ground. You can plant medium red clover...

Nice daylilies! I spent time in Raleigh and Charlotte while living in Sumter, SC for 18 months in the '70's... very hot and humid!

Found this site through BEANS. Previously trying to grow heirloom tomatoes and have a huge collection. First year with pole beans. I am slow in the garden but I do as much as I can. It usually goes rampant during the long humid hot month of July. This farm used to be part of the Great Black...