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'Corlis Bolton Haynes' sunchokes are flowering! And WOW are the plants huge at maturity! For planting next year they need to be spaced better. The row turned out to be 5 feet wide. The bottom leaves don't get all ratty either, like so many perennial plants do, but stay deep green and...

'Black Snake' is looking like it's getting in the 'safe' zone. I see bumps and feel like I've almost made it to home base! This is another bean that - for a bad year such as it's been for me - has done well against the odds. I thought these pods were just the cutest, the seed bumps look...

Thank you @Decoy1 @P Suckling for the info! Appreciate it! 🩶 I just got the best email from a grower in Germany, who I'll be doing a swap with in the fall. He sent me a list of accidental errors on my website related to the spelling of certain beans, mostly due to them being in another...

The weather has been beautiful all summer, nearly perfect for the flowers and vegetables. The last few weeks got a bit dry, but a deep soaking rain finally came. The pest pressure however has been the worst I've ever seen; between cutworms, voles, a rabbit, squirrels, chipmunks and sparrows I...

The first dry pods are starting, and I harvested some seeds of 'Cranberry Onondaga. It's quite an early bean really, and to my surprise is a bush not a pole variety. So, the seed harvest will be smaller given that I usually plant 3 or 4 beans around a pole. The bushes have a good number of...

Thanks for letting me know @Triffid! This week I noticed that there are green pods mixed in with the purple ones, so it looks like at least one plant is coming true. I had no idea what color it was supposed to be, mostly because I grow way too many beans, lol. Can't keep track of it all...

Not really, maybe a little hoeing but that's it. I saw some vole holes today so I'm wondering if they've made some tunnels into the rows that I can't see. These are the tiny voles, the size of field mice.

The 'Nomad' pepper. Possibly the best pepper I've ever grown. I actually haven't had one in the ground I think since 2021 or 2022. Such good breeding went into this variety! I believe it's selected from 'Gypsy', the hybrid pepper. This one is quite immature, but it was a bit small when it...

We've had a pretty hazy summer here too. Not every day, but quite frequently for days at a time. Wonder if this is a problem for some of them...

Sorry to hear that @Blue-Jay. I'm also experiencing some losses this year with beans suddenly dying on me. I don't know what it is, they usually start by the leaves yellowing then wilting and then simply drying up and dying. Sometimes they're wilting first with no immediate yellowing. The...

My dog loved chewing dish towels through that phase!

The Four O'Clocks are officially blooming! They smell soooo good too. 🌺 I plan to save the roots to plant for next year, so maybe I can get them to bloom earlier. I bought a package of seeds that were supposed to be all marbled flowers, but so far some of them are also pure pink. I like them...

Found some pods today! ❤️‍🔥 The season is 30 days late this year, so I'm celebrating every win. Most beans are still flowering and have only itty bitty beans. I'm just so happy to find some beans!! I am so thrilled with the pink of network bean 'Pink Tenders'! 💗 'Black Snake' 'Ryder's...

Apicture of the 'Nakhodka' Russian sunchokes, which are increasingly massive in size. The varietal differences are starting to really show in the foliage of each variety. 'Clearwater' even has a slightly different plant structure, with a top like a pine tree while the others are more like...

Please check for sewer grates too while your at it. ;)

Well...I hesitate to even say it and jinx myself.... but I think since my last impromptu fencing job with various pieces of fencing wire I had around I think I may have finally gotten the rabbit to move off. Hard to say for sure, but I haven't seen signs of him since he ate the Helios bean...

Very pretty poppies. I doubt they're Shirley's though because this variety is known by it's characteristic diversity of colors and petal/flower types. These look more like corn poppies.

The many faces of the Shirley poppy. It hardly seems worth the bother to plant them since the blooms are so remarkably brief, barely more than a day. The flowers are extremely delicate and fussy too. The color lasts in a patch only because the blooms open in succession. But the diversity...

@Marie2020 - his name is Prince Charles, lol. I dunno about that.

Which currant variety are you growing @Pulsegleaner?