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'Zacapitan' ancient landrace tomato is showing it's true criollo form already! I really hope they are the pastel pink of the photo given for them. 🤞 Tomato eyelashes of 'Pink Champagne'...🍷 First ripe tomato of 'Yellow Canary'! A great year for the mini dwarfs. Last year's 'Monk' peas got...

We had torrential rain last night, it was heavy. I was almost going to water the main garden last evening for the 1st time this season and DH said hold off, rains were coming. It didn't seem like it, sky was blue and it was HOT. We swam at 8 at night to cool off, and low and behold it started...

Network bean 'Barry Island' not only was the first to climb, but continues to blow all the other beans away in terms of height. It's probably over 6 feet already! Funnily enough the next height champion is 'Ryder's Top O' the Pole'! Ha! I thought it would be 'Vitalis' because that one was...

Just thought of it, Valley Greene Seeds. Only I checked & it looks like after many years they've changed the package to say 'Cherry' now. Sort of odd, I saw some just last year that said large red cherry. Marketing switch I guess. It says a 'century old' on the packet. 🤔

There is one company brand here on the racks, I can't think of the name off the top of my head, that sells 'Large Red Cherry'. It's the only vendor that I've ever seen offer it with that specific name, so, around here anyway, it's rare. I've always wondered about that variety; on the one hand...

Well @Blue-Jay I can confirm at this point that the network bean Fagiolo Ruviotti I'm growing for you is not a pole, but a bush. I thought last year maybe the vines were struggling because they never grew tall. But this year they look good and are staying as bushes. I have two separate...

@ruralmamma Honest to goodness, now that I have a label maker I don't know how I ever lived without it. SO many issues for me with sharpie written tags, having to redo them mid season, cleaning them etc etc I feel like I tried it all to make the labeling of plants economical and also...

A new petunia I'm growing this year. 👇 I used to really dislike petunias, thinking they were just WAY too ubiquitous. I found it impossible to see beauty in an annual as commonplace as daisies, buttercups, or even dandelions. And slowly, over time, I began to see the many advantages this...

An interesting experiment would be to see how far down you can go with a bean seed. I've done it with potatoes. I read that the deeper you go the more potatoes you get, so I went 3+ feet, and hilled a little bit. Yup, that made for lots of potatoes. Too many actually, lol.

Pole beans have hit the point where the root systems are well established, and now the upper bodies are ready to take over the world. Glorious time of year. Let the show begin. Life in the garden is full of ups and downs. Thank goodness squats are ultimately very good for us.😁

I feel like the garden is finally catching up after a late start to the season. Pole beans are starting to really climb (yay!), tomato plants are all growing fruits. I'm happy with how the cucumber plants are looking, I don't usually plant those in the ground and I also don't typically grow...

I've been looking at my martynia plants and secretly griping about them for the last 4 weeks. For a plant that's supposed to grow to 4-5 feet wide, these have barely budged since planting. And it's not for lack of hot weather, which they probably love, or lack of rain because there has been...

Agreed, variety seems to play a central role. Probably some mysterious combination of variety and how it reacts with heat or lack thereof, soil composition, mineral presence, etc. Beans are pretty sensitive to micronutrients the agronomists tell me, so that may be a factor too. Then the...

I have never been a huge fan of mini dwarf tomatoes, but I also haven't tried a whole lot of them. But so far this year I am quite impressed with this little colony of mini's that I'm growing. And their fertility demands have been fairly low, which is good, because the doling out of all this...

Some little bean updates and hodgepodge. I noticed today how peculiar the leaves of the bean variety 'Barba di Frate' are! In front I believe is the bean 'Atlas', which has what I'd call the more standard leaves, BdF behind. It reminds me of some houseplant whose name I can't think of...

Oh yes, I forgot to include that in my epic saga. I went out half a dozen times in the middle of the night with a flashlight. No question about it, the best thing is to catch the buggers. But in all those bleary eyed searches I did not find a single one. They may drop down and curl up at...

I believe it's called the 'Variegated Cutworm', a more formidable opponent that the single other type I've encountered. There are still some small ones here and there, as I've found a few marigolds again cut, and a small tomato branch yesterday morning, but the powder seems to be able to stop...

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...