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i don't find dill trickier other than it has so many seeds that some eventually will grow... leave enough flowers to go to seed.

mums seem to root so easily i've not bothered with it.

oh goody, having fun shelling beans and seeing some of my crosses giving results i like to see. :) :) :)

raining today, they even have flood warnings for localized heavy storms if they happen.

they are one of the easiest to id. :)

picked some dry beans, a few tomatoes that were not split too bad and then some cosmo seeds. i'm trying to get a more yellow selection of the cosmos instead of the mix with the oranges and reds in there. Mom doesn't like orange flowers that much so we'll see if we can nudge them in the right...

i'm similar. just like to tell stories and give more things that other's can find ways to respond - a wandering conversation sitting on the porch or laying on the grass looking up at the stars.

i recall that one being very productive here. :)

i was able to get out for a few hours of bean picking today. :) i'm hoping i got two of the network bean numbers improved but won't know until they dry all the way down. whatever i did get the quality looks good. we might get a little rain here soon (right on the edge by the looks of it).

i hope it goes well, just remember it is easier to start smaller than larger and then see how it goes. after a few years all gardens seem to improve on weed control if you keep after them but it is always something that needs dealing with and with kids and animals involved it might be more than...

along the house may mean limited moisture or does it get watered regularly? the plant i was dealing with was in prime garden soil with plenty of compost, moisture and easy space to invade (the old strawberry patch).

any deeper planted seeds might be ok, but it does depend upon the layout of the garden too as a slope can get washed out... the shallower planted seeds could be covered with some burlap or old rags and then checked to see if they are sprouting once or twice a day to remove it. delaying a day...

you mow around it or is it contained by a sidewalk or driveway or some other barrier? i had some get going in the strawberry patch. by the time i dug it out of there the root clump was the size of a wheelbarrow and it took me quite some time to knock all the dirt off it and get just the roots...

finished last batch of tomatoes (unplanned by me but since they picked them last week they were there to be used and ready yesterday so i did 'em) of 7 quarts. many had deep rotting splits so about 1/3 - 1/2 of what was there on the counter ended up in the reject bucket and got buried in the...

@Shades-of-Oregon i have seen monarchs lay eggs on other flowers related to milkweed like this butterfly weed (it has orange flowers) plant we have growing around here in some spots (that we've planted) i actually prefer it to the regular milkweed plants because the roots do not travel they...

return as much as you can to the gardens where grown. worm composting, in place composting, other composting and amending where needed. crop rotations, cover crops and fallowing. i consider my biggest failures to be when i can't get a garden weeded early enough that the majority of the weeds...

i no longer even try to fight whatever it is here because like you it seems to come along no matter what i do. the plants start losing leaves and sometimes are almost completely empty of leaves by this time. we did have more leaves on plants this year compared to most of the previous years and...

that seems like such an early time for a medical appointment, i hope all went ok. as for the diagonals, it's all we can do to avoid the people who aren't paying attention to where they're going let alone worry about directions... :)

welcome back and i hope things go better this time around. :) as for life changing, yes, that certainly does happen.

yes, and i'm sorry it has happened. :hugs