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Processing and de-seeding the 'Nomad' peppers tonight! There have been so many peppers to deal with I started to wonder what I'd do with them all. This has not really been an issue before, lol. I've frozen roasted peppers, but wasn't thrilled about that result. Then I had the idea to get...

Well, I pooped out on getting the sunchokes in. My body just would not cooperate. So I compromised with it and finished digging out the last sunchoke variety instead, which allowed me to sit in one spot more or less. DD helped. Only in the last bit do I take the shovel to the area and dig...

What a coincidence, an Italian neighbour a few streets over sent DH home with a big chunk of comfrey plant last week. It has black roots, and she tells me that it's 'the real thing'? I have no experience with this herb, but it's waiting in a pot right now to be planted somewhere! I should...

After today, I'm ready for a back transplant! Twisted the wrong way a week ago and boy it bizarrely reduced my capacities. I didn't even exert when it happened which is odd. I was feeling great today for the first time since, and then we cut down 3 more trees; all the clean up and bending and...

Ghastly!

You've piqued my curiosity @digitS' , given that there are so many unusual names out there, is there any particular one(s) in which you heard the name, and that was just an immediate and irreversible 'no way'? I'm influenced fairly strongly by names as well. Last year I grew a bean mostly...

Another round of tomato seed rinsing done, and a new set of jars fermenting with tomato pulp filled today. This is almost the end of it all, minus longkeepers. One more day I'm guessing. Then on to deseeding the peppers, and all the time sensitive stuff is done. The lasagna I made yesterday...

That variety is so unique, I quite like that color it has. I'm growing this year a variety (which is really more of a mix of varieties I think) called 'Malawi Mix', and there is a bean in there that looks exactly like Van Gogh's Olive. I actually think they might be the same bean.

I have been plucking ground cherries from plants and de-husking them for several evenings now. It is surprising how different they are from each other; the Physalis minima which doesn't seem to have a common name as a fruit, just the Latin, is quite sticky. As I'm pulling off the paper...

The Ohio Pole seeds from today that I saved, the dried ones and the not so dry ones. The seeds were not attached to anything inside the pods, they all basically fell out when I opened them so they're mature, just not dry clearly. I can only hope that the seedcoats don't shrivel, that seems to...

Wouldn't you know just after I posted about Ohio Pole, a new development. Don't know if this will help anybody, but will share just in case. I discovered today the #1 enemy to the drying of my pods. Warmth. I was checking my pods daily and they were drying perfectly out in my sunroom...

Garden clean up has mostly come and gone, though tilling is left to be done. There was a lot of pots and tomato cages this year, which was a days work to empty, stack and put away, considering I had to unfasten all the full sized mesh cages. I wound up making a massive round bale of all them...

My friend Scott wrote this article, I thought everyone would enjoy to see his pictures and read his piece! https://fairmontpost.com/the-perfect-pods/

The first year I grew Grandma Gina's fully half of the pods sprouted seeds inside. Ever since if I grow a really fleshy variety there are a couple steps I've taken that seem to have helped. Of course, in really prolonged bad weather there isn't much that can be done I think. But in that last...

It was a frustrating evening. :he I did a big round of tomato seed processing a few days ago and finished rinsing the last bowl tonight, a huge glass Pyrex mixing bowl of tomato innards. All the fruits the plant made went in there. And in my first pour I saw that I let it go too long...

They can probably grow for another month or so out there, but the 'Chantenay Red' carrots are living up to their true form today - short, fat, blunt. (I could make a joke right there but won't. 🤣) I think these can get quite a bit bigger than this really, but for my garden they're already big...

Vegetarians in paradise, love it!

Yes, when I winnow the lettuce seed I pour the handfuls of seed only a foot or so above my container. Any more than that and I'd start losing much more seed to even a gentle breeze. Those seeds are so light and tiny.

Yes, it would probably help me conserve seeds too. Every year I winnow lettuce I have so many lettuce seedlings on that ground come spring, so I know I'm losing seeds even though I don't see them fly out with the breeze. So much so now I always winnow over a garden bed so I don't grow lettuce...

It's funny you mention the Rose bean, because the pods you describe them having are exactly like my Ohio Pole, squishy and large. And those two bean seeds look very similar as well. Maybe there is more than one bean with the name Ohio Pole, because others I know who've grown it had the same...