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The sunchoke adventure continues. I once again cooked tubers up, this time a much bigger amount. I picked at the base of the plant and got lucky, because up rolled a quite large tuber, and for now I'm not wanting to seriously dig up any plants, I'd like to wait until it's colder. I was really...

I would love to have one of those seed cleaners @Decoy1! Maybe someday, they probably save a lot of time. My lettuce seed saving is as simple as it gets, the essence of it now being to let the stalks get as dry as possible. I have found that has been the gamechanger for me with all aspects of...

Day 2 of not squeezing tomatoes. I'm starting to feel like a new woman. 💃 Back to the grind tomorrow though. Tonight's homework assignment was: reclaim coffee table real estate. Partly because I have a gnawing fear that somebody is going to hook a box with their shoe and pods will fly...and...

The collection of fermenting jars ranks as the highest pressure, in case of sprouting, and then the piles of actual tomatoes is next because letting them sit too long really makes fermentation risky & time sensitive. I didn't keep count, but I'm sure there must have been at least 60 big flats...

Oh my gosh, thank you for telling me this @Artorius! :hugs I just went and opened some of the older pods which are saggy and yellowing with fully formed seed inside, just in case. I didn't see any sprouted seed knock on wood. What do you think is the best way to deal with the drying pods...

I took a break today from tomatoes and that was weird. I feel like I've been working daily at getting these piles down for weeks. Thank heavens for the longkeepers, they're preserving my sanity right now. So many tomatoes to contend with. But I'm close to the end. Boy did I overdo it with...

I'm relieved that frost risk is out of the picture for the next week at least. Gives me a break from moving my last poles in and out of the carport everyday. I've got so many cardboard flats of beans that I'm having to try and speed dry them so we can use the public areas of the house again...

I see what you mean already, the place where I planted them last year (and didn't replant any this year) sprouted a bunch of plants! So whatever I failed to harvest clearly made some new plants, and that is a difficult spot too, right where the back of my garden meets the forest. I'm surprised...

It was a big day today - my first time cooking up the Jerusalem artichokes. I sauteed them in butter, added a bit of salt and pepper, popped a lid on the pan for a few minutes and that was it. I sliced them fairly thin, because I wanted them to cook fast. And I didn't peel them because the...

Wow! That's incredible @Blue-Jay! I looked at my Schneebohne seed compartment, and it's @Artorius that I got that bean from originally! We really have our own little bean universe here! 😍

All beautiful @Oxford, and that one bottom right is stunning. 😍

Gardening thoughts in the fall of 2025.🍃🍁🍂 This year really showed me how important it is to not give up after a single, poor grow out of a variety. I regrew a few things that I've grown before with poor results, and it was a totally different experience this time. It further convicts my...

I'm so happy Schneebohne did so well for you @Blue-Jay! Kinda makes me feel all giddy that my bean hero likes a bean I sent him! lol It's funny, when I grew Blue Spitball last year it grew exactly like your plants in the photo, they didn't even climb up. ]They just sort of sprawled. I wanted...

The postal workers are on strike again. No mail service. :somad All I can do is hope it doesn't last. Now both political parties are done with mail carriers and want them gone, no more door to door delivery. Because of all these problems with them for so many years, we may lose home...

The 'Schöenbrunn' ground cherries are finally rolling in! OMG they are delicious, just outstanding. And I have always really liked regular ground cherries, but wow, these are even better. These are crazy good, more in line with a superb plum than a ground cherry really in terms of size. I...

Yes, you can tell them apart by taste. As the year goes along though the difference is shrinking, earlier in the summer the pink carrots were very juicy, a bit of a fruit taste in there along with the carrot taste.

Little spotlight on the 'Kyoto Red' carrot. It really is such a unique & lovely shade of pink, almost a flesh tone. I sampled the carrots again today and they are still quite juicy and tender. There isn't many in the row as I've eaten a fair share, and the seed packet wasn't generous either...

Dog babies :love

Right now I have a beagle, just the one. He is a loving spoonful, has so many great qualities but I do battle with his nose. I love trick training, agility, lots of the dog sports, so I think a Sheltie would be a good fit. I love that medium size too. As @Shades-of-Oregon said about the fur...

Mabel is beautiful. I think of shelties as just about the most perfect breed. In the future I may get one, though I don't know how I'd survive the transition from hound to herder.