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Bit of a garden mystery. So...the kale in the front yard very early on turned a very dark purple, darker even than this photo suggest. On an overcast day, it looks a bit blackish even. Yet in one of the bean gardens I have a double row of the same kale, and none of them developed that color...

🌾3/4 of the pole bean plants are turning yellow now. It's just the later maturing ones that are still green. I read recently about the yellowing of the leaves, and in hindsight it seems sort of obvious, that the plants do it because they no longer need to photosynthesize since the job of...

Might be some hybrids on the market, I think they're called deeraffes.

Perfect! I'll buy my parents some deer! 😉

I learned how to use a hedge trimmer today, and can only say that I'm utterly grateful that I've been able to spend this much of my life up to this point having never used one. It was a huge hedge too, very long and in spots about 9 feet tall (after trimming). Kids & I went to help my parents...

I'm loving the 'Elephant's Head' amaranth! The color isn't quite as bright and poppy as last year's 'Ruby parfait', but the heads are certainly more dramatic! 🐘 Personally I think 'Elephant's Trunk' would be more precise..🤭

Well @Blue-Jay some good news and bad news about network bean 'Kruger's Speckled Caseknife'. Good news is the grow out went much better this year and there were no outcrosses in the seed I saved, only one plant came true last year of the 3 plants I had. The seeds all developed very nicely as...

I'm quite relieved to know that it's from the outside in, not the other way around. After growing so many tomatoes I've become accustomed to rain being a problem at the root level from too much absorption, causing the tomatoes to split. Ground cherries do that too. I thought it might be the...

'Brutte e Buon' which translates to 'Ugly and Good' 😜 'Fagy Után' which oddly means 'after frost' in Hungarian. Contextually that phrase usually refers to fava beans, which are somewhat tolerant of frost. So it seems we have a common bean for some reason being called a fava...

It's been a year of sunflowers! 🌻 2 different species, 3 varieties of one and about a half dozen of the other. I don't recall ever making an effort to eat the seeds of sunflowers I've grown, so it came as quite a surprise when I tried one yesterday and realized how utterly delicious they are...

I think I just misunderstood @Blue-Jay , I guess what I was trying to ask was is it the excess water being taken up from the roots in saturated ground that makes the beans sprout in the pods, or the water soaking into the pods from the outside that does it? External vs internal sort of thing..

This is interesting, I didn't realize the main concern was proximity to the ground. (I really am new to growing beans I guess!) So the excessive uptake of water doesn't cause the bean seeds to sprout? I thought that was the biggest worry, the ground getting saturated with water and the...

'Bela Putersnica' 💛 She makes my heart sing. 🎶

Do you find the bush beans are much more sensitive to excess rain than pole varieties? That's my guess but I don't know, just because the plants are so much larger and might handle water better. Would you worry less about pole beans being exposed to lots of rain? I'm glad to report we have...

I thought of that one too, but given the Italian connection I guessed in that direction. A few years ago I had 2 separate people gift me with seeds for yellow crescent beans, one Annelino Giallo, one Sultan's Golden Crescent; that planting year I went to all my samples picking out what to grow...

@Blue-Jay I have a new respect for your dedication to growing beans. They're a difficult master to serve, and I'm on year 2 now of not having a great bean year. I'd think of giving up if I didn't enjoy growing them so much, it's amazing that you have persisted for all these years regardless of...

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Apparently, the law is destination landfill. Which makes sense, that channel is the lifeblood of that town. All business is tied to it so upsetting the tourists would be fairly prohibited. I once met a family there that had flown from Germany to stay at a cottage on the channel to kayak the...

I believe the boats have to check in with designated ports and register themselves with border authorities before entering Canadian waters. Probably goes both ways. I'd guess some might just wing it and take their chances, but given that at least a few of those yachts were valued at about 12...

On a lark I checked how one disposes of fish waste in Killarney, and.....it's actually illegal to dump it in the water. I thought it was strange that he waved, because that isn't etiquette in the channel, too many boats of every size and kind and too many people generally. Something was off...