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A new beginning, in many ways. I hope to return to gardening this year, although the seed saving will be on a much smaller scale. Just finished transferring more than half of my collection into very capable hands, who will hopefully maintain them for the future. They are a couple connected with...

Is your primary focus on snaps, shell beans, or both? It would help if I could narrow that down. I grow quite a few large-seeded pole shellies, some of which might mature in your area. The large-seeded shorter-season pole beans (many from the Northeast states) often have fibrous pods though...

I sometimes have the same problem with chipmunks, when soybeans get close to drying. If allowed to do so unchecked, they can harvest EVERY SEED in a row within days. The only way I've been able to stop them (there are nearly always 2 or more) is to use rat traps. They are clever enough to steal...

Melon & cucumber seeds, if stored away from heat & humidity, have a long storage life - easily 5 years or more. If you store the seeds in a sealed container in the fridge, they should lose little to no viability. Several years ago, I planted 10-year-old cucumber seed (stored in a freezer bag at...

Don't mean to speak out of turn, but I'm guessing @digitS' cooks them as greens. In a previous garden (where they both hitchhiked in barnyard manure) those "weeds" were the first greens I harvested. Very tasty, although the texture of the lambs quarter takes a little getting used to. Highly...

There's such a place??? Am I on the dream thread??? [pinching self]

Yup, this is March... yoyo weather.

Instant... non-caffeinated... herbal tea. Mind blown. 💥 A good late-night drink (drinking decaf coffee somehow feels like sacrilege).

DW liked to hang sheets & blankets on the clothes lines to dry. She said it made them smell like sunshine. 🌞

Hmmm... my calendar only has Saturdays and Sundays. Weird.

I've had a lot of dreams like that... holding onto money or jewels, trying (unsuccessfully) to bring them back with me as I wake. Now they are dreams of my DW, hugging her intensely, and wishing the dream would never end. :hugs

Storms went through last night... no thunder, but really gusty winds. Still gusting hard today. This has been the windiest winter I can remember; it seems like strong winds every 3-4 days. It has blown my big rolling trash cans across the yard into my neighbor's cedars several times already...

Yes, ag fleece can be effective at preventing squash vine borer (among other pests). But for squash & other members of the gourd family, timing is everything. You need to cover the plants during the egg laying period, then uncover the plants to allow pollination. SVB is very bad here, and I've...

Non-GMO??? Really??? How comforting to know that it is plain harmless kang kong, not Kong-zilla. :lol::lol::lol:

Gee, that sounds like a good plant to replace all of the dead trees in my tree line... for even better privacy. :D

I am too. You can also get water spinach seed from Agrohaitai... I think? They have a link, but won't even open it for me because of my location.

The two garden locations I would love to visit are Turkey, and India. I've seen photos of street markets in Turkey, and would be obsessively sampling all of the olives, dates, & apricots that we never see here... so that visit would have to be timed for the harvest season. Then browsing through...

@Artorius , that is a remarkable success story.

@heirloomgal , you are fortunate to be able to buy seed. I was blessed to have a friend find & purchase 1 kilo of seed for me in a Milwaukee market years ago, and have been growing from that seed ever since. Water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica Forssk) has been banned here as a noxious weed, so seed...

That's my hope as well. Milder temps above freezing forecast next week. I'm looking forward to giving the car a bath... it looks like a mobile salt lick.