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The last stragglers of 2025. 'Badda Nera', 'Gialet' and 'Custodia' (bottom). The only ones left in the ground in the main garden. Gialet will be fine I'm sure, the pods are fairly well advanced and some are even close to dry. Really it could come out by now, we just have no frost for the next...

My carrot experiment of 2025 & observations thus far. To my surprise, for the most part I have not detected major differences in most of the carrot varieties I'm growing. I can't recall now how many I planted, but probably around 15. I bought almost every one available on the retail shelves...

It feels like Christmastime for this bean collector! I've been really sticking to my resolve with not opening pods yet, and waiting until things are crispy dry. And even if they are dry the air right now is pretty humid and the pods soften when that happens so I'm still waiting anyway. That...

The 'Zacapitan' is done! These are the last of the fruits, I saved the others and a few perished on the plant. It was indeed a strange and unusual tomato, similar to other wild or even 'ancient' tomatoes I've grown. These must be very close to what a strain of the original tomatoes were like...

I was bad today and opened a few of the 'Ukrainian' pods. They were dry, but not super crispy dry which is what I was waiting for, but I just couldn't wait anymore to see what they look like. Oooh, I like these. I wondered if they'd be like 'Lilascheke', which I've grown a few times, but no...

I don't find they have trouble so much climbing, as it's the yields that don't seem quite the same. But that could be my imagination, and also a variety related thing as well. Some of the vigor you're observing in the Avalon off-type is hybrid vigor, a unique expression that takes place when...

Salsify! :D I've always been curious to try that perennial vegetable! I hope you post about how it goes. Apparently the roots are very delicious. And the lemon bomb, er er, I mean lemon balm is such a lovely smell. I have a big patch this year and even though I don't eat it, I rip pieces of...

Yes! People saving seeds makes my heart sing! 🎶🎵🎼

Hahaha, they do! It's a plant that bears a veggie much like an okra pod! My vines didn't do very good so I didn't get many pods, but I might try again. Insectoid seeds!

Yes, I grew those just a year or two ago and quite liked them. A real classic type of tomato. I've never had the habit to pick tomatoes green, but this year because of critters chewing some of the fruit I started removing them from the vine at what I believe is called the 'breaker' stage...

My guess is that it's a genetic dud, with how the lower stem is swelling significantly in the center and there is no proper growth tip forming. There is energy going up but it can't extend. I see stuff like this occasionally too, its usually pretty random. Some times two starter leaves grow...

One of the later maturing long keeper tomatoes has finally turned red, well 2 of the fruits turned red, the rest are still pretty green. They are ROCK hard. I'm finding the little long keepers mature pretty quickly compared to the bigger ones, both on and off the vine. 'Ruby Treasure' is my...

Sure @ruralmamma. Here is a couple different sizes of birch poles I used, any branch that is on there is cut a few inches out (at least) from the main trunk. The longer the better really. It does really help anchor the plants firmly onto the support, even a crook at the neck on the top the...

Interesting you mention that, because I grew the variety 'Kyoto Red' this year and was astounded when several of the plants went to seed in early August. I didn't even know that was possible for a biennial? I've never seed that before. Your experience of bolting with so many of your carrots...

What variety of white carrot is that @Alasgun? Those roots look incredible.

I think my brain is getting rusty @Blue-Jay because I have no recollection of the timing of that bean, it escapes my memory entirely... So I just searched the history here on the bean thread and on Sept 11/2021 I wrote that is was so loaded with pods that it broke the tree it was growing on...

Treading water to keep my head above the tomatoes. It has been a good nightshade year, that's for sure. It didn't seem like it would be but I'm surrounded by box flats of tomatoes at this point. I tried a lot of new kinds, and it has been a lucky year of winners. Some especially pretty...

Here too. ;)

As far as I'm aware @Debbie292d blight is airborne, not necessarily soil born. So fresh soil probably isn't much help. I think with avoiding blight the specific cultivar is really important. Lots of the currant tomatoes have very high blight resistance. I grow tomatoes in my greenhouse, no...

Yes, I hadn't though of that. I don't think my supports would ever fail under weight, but the plants themselves could possibly tear or get damaged by the weight. Luckily, it took only a thin layer of ice to create the protective effect so those frozen waterfalls of ice that you see on the...