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Memories of the 'Shirley' poppies this summer.... I had no idea that a single poppy variety could have so much diversity in it and still be a single variety. I'm surprised how much I enjoyed them, and the long blooming time they had (probably because of crowding). In the end I saved some...

Happy to hear it @Blue-Jay! Always such a pleasure when a late maturing bean variety turns out so nice, and you get lucky with the weather! I am officially done shelling absolutely everything and it feels darn great. I did the last ones late last night and everything is in jars. All things...

I am gonna guess she likes to bury goodies! That looks to me like a nose to push dirt over what she's hiding. That, or she has a bit of 🐷 in her soul and likes to root around for nice stinky smelly things....

I have always relished the process of shelling beans too. This year though I tried something different, packing the pods into paper bags when dried and setting them aside. I thought this was a good idea for 2 reasons, one that I could be fully sure that the beans are deeply dried to ensure the...

I've been shelling for days. Hours every evening; it's both satisfying & tiring at this stage. And it wasn't even a super great bean year, nothing like 2023 was. Feeling extremely grateful though because pests gave me a run for my money, it was a possibility my main garden got wiped out by...

One of the most delicious uses for dried tomatoes I've tried yet. 👇 I always served it on hot noodles, with a bit of extra cheese on top. It is sooo good! I need to make this again actually, it's been too long, thank you for the memory refresher! :hugs...

Well this is interesting @Alasgun, until you posted I had no idea that parsley roots were not supposed to look like that! :lol: I honestly thought this was the correct to form, I guess because I've never grown them before. Wow, I can see from google images that they are supposed to look like...

I am beyond thrilled with this carrot, 'Kyoto Red'. The dropping temperatures are causing them to darken and the transformation is pretty fab. And they are still SUPER juicy, and still have those fruity notes. I agree with Baker Creek, these may just be the best carrot ever. I need to buy...

I've not seen formation like that before, maybe the odd time. What do you think caused it?

Was it closest ancestors or closet ancestors??

I shelled the 'Stanley' bush bean pods tonight. That was a truly stellar green bean, a standout of 2025. And it stood out again as a sheller - it nearly drove me to madness. Those itty bitty pods all dried & suctioned onto the itty bitty seeds. There is no kind of bean more tedious to shell...

One of the things that has been a major surprise to me since joining TEG is how common it is for people in the US to have backyard birds. It doesn't seem to matter the state either, but rather a cultural condition. To some extent I envy it, not that I need any more responsibilities than I...

Waiting for the nice weather next week to get some tulips in the ground. Last year I got red with white edges, this year I did a 50/50 split of midnight purple and bright yellow varieties. I really dislike digging in freezing cold soil so that little blip of warmth will get taken advantage of...

Nothing haunts me like the plants I didn't buy......

The 2026 plantings are in the works, you're a true gardener, the garden is in you as much as you're in it! @digitS' ;)

I wish I had gotten a picture of them freshly shelled, they've lost a bit of brightness in the last month sitting dried, but my crop of network bean 'Blaugraue' this year has been really good. Complete turnaround from last year's feeble attempt. Such a fabulous bean variety, productive, so...

The shelling continues and I'm taking mental notes as I go along. I must say, the 'Dakota Bumble' bush beans are just blowing me away with their health and production, especially considering I really crowded them in a small grow box. The pods are really hard, but you can tell they will resist...

Apparently, #2. She said she eats them like potato chips. Personally, I think I'd like kale chips but hard to imagine them without a bit of oil and salt, I don't think you could do it like that in a dehydrator though. That method is probably oven only. I grew too many kale for sure. So far...

I gambled in a huge way re-planting the mere 30 seeds I collected from the 'Ho Lan Dao' pea starts I got at Rona's. In hindsight it was a risk I shouldn't have taken because nobody sells those seeds that I know of in CA. But, I may yet get lucky and have the plants make it to maturity. The...

All the pods I've shelled so far, as well as all the dried garden plants, got wood chipper-ed and I spread the crumbs across the beds that I thought needed them most. This is where we're at now. I'm hoping to finish the bean shelling this week and get everything through the chipper and spread...