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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...

@Marie2020 you may have seen this already, but I think you'd like the youtube duo 'Peggy and Molly'. And I rather dislike pitts, but this really does give me a chuckle. I would never have believed it if I hadn't seen it. Such an unlikely pair, just the cutest. And you can kind of tell that...

I will post pictures later tonight if I get to it. No, the chickens will hatch for sure. The reason being it's a physics principle. DH is very science minded, the ice doesn't send a message to the plant - it acts like a skinsuit on a diver. When ice freezes, it actually releases a tiny...

I have had the most incredible seed saving journey in the last couple of days, in the literal sense. I've been keeping a fairly close eye on the weather network for nighttime lows for awhile. However, things apparently can shift quickly and two days ago at 10 o'clock at night I saw a frost...

The pods are fine, and the seeds I've harvested are fine, it's just the vines do not get big, and lush. I can't quite describe it, but they just seemed to lack vigor. The leaf shape was correct, and there did not seem to be any pathology present except that it doesn't grow aggressively as so...

Todays' collected pods, 'Brutt Buon' and 'Buenos Aires Rojo'.

Had a wonderful evening doing nothing but collect drying bean pods from the vines. It's been an almost dizzyingly busy summer, and there have been quite a few day trips recently for paddleboarding before the season is up that it's actually gotten difficult to keep up with the seed harvest...

I know this much @ruralmamma , the seeds you send back should look like the original you planted (or what's on @Blue-Jay's website) and if there isn't enough of them because some crosses showed up, (this happened to me last year with Kruger's Speckled) we just plant the true to type seed again...

Thank you @Decoy1 @Artorius , so it sounds like it did fairly well for you @Decoy1. I wouldn't describe my vines as terrible looking, but they aren't nearly as filled out or lush as pole beans typically get so I don't really know if anything is wrong or its just varietal. @Artorius if you...

Has anyone here grown the pole bean 'Fagiolo de la Bereta'? Also known as 'Bareta, de la B.' according to Belle Epoque Meisse. I'm growing it for the 2nd time and finding that again it doesn't seem like a super healthy variety, just not really vigorous and lush. I'm wondering if this is...