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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...

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! 😍