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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.

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...