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How awesome you are going! I even have a good friend not far from there I could stay with, but this is a bad time of year for me to try to get away. Have a great time @sea-kangaroo

@marshallsmyth by golly, I think you are right. @Chickie'sMomaInNH I think it looks like granite, too! @PhilaGardener I imagine they will further segregate, but it would be neat if some remain this pattern that I can try to stabilize. @Pulsegleaner I think I remember a photo of those cowpeas...

Had a nice surprise shelling cowpeas this afternoon. It appears to be a cross between Dolicho and Tetapeche Grey Mottled.

I'm sure a lot of you can relate to this one. I know I resemble this comment.

Just catching up and reading this. So glad it went well for you both.

The Cowpeas are starting to harvest. The second half of our summer has been dry and hot so they are doing well, however the fire ants have begun eating them so I'm getting stung on my hands. Soon the field mice will begin. The Lima beans could have used a 20 foot trellis and are pulling the two...

Oh no! I hope the fires are quickly put out and that neither of your properties are harmed. The Texas fires got close to us a few years back, and I, too, know the fear of loss and preparation to evacuate animals. Fortunately it never came here. But after that I scanned our family photos and...

I've been a lifelong vegetarian and I'm very active, so I just kind of accepted my extra pounds as middle-aged spread. There really wasn't anything more to give up, or any extra time or energy to burn more calories. Three years ago I was having terrible, debilitating knee and elbow pain and...

Annette, you're the first to confirm my suspicion about the heat, thanks. I have friends in Florida and San Diego that have great success with them, but I think their heat is ameliorated by ocean breezes. I wonder if they could be fall planted and overwintered here? As foolish as it sounds, I...

Oh no! That must have been disappointing. I had about 60 potato plants and almost all the spuds rotted in the 52 inches of rain. What we harvested was the size of my thumb and would fit in a mason jar. Too rocky here for gophers, but the fire ants have taken a liking to corn. Still, field mice...

I think this is the bean you saw on my photo account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/flowerweaver/13416894064/in/photolist-mrB6aJ This is a mix I bought as Hammond's Painted Lady from Amishland Heirloom Seeds. They are very skimpy with their quantities, this is all that came in a package. The...

Be careful. Recently my roofing contractor subcontracted a couple of guys that looked like meth-heads with prison tattoos to replaster and repaint my rooms. They even had a business card that looked like it had been run over multiple times on a freeway. They showed up late each day, complained...

@marshallsmyth the Shoshone 1 do look pretty stable to me, too. Yes, I will only plant the boldest colored Shoshone 2 next time. I like the pintoed Koronis Purple, will work with them next spring. No, you did not send me wax moon or eclipse moon. What did they look like? You did send me Evening...

Yes, I know what Evening Moon looked like when it went in--I always photograph originals for comparison. It helps me compare results, especially when so many ones are new to me. They were bush form. (Very few of the beans marked as half runners did any running at all, could be because they were...

I'm so glad you enjoyed seeing them @marshallsmyth --if only it had been a "normal" season (whatever that is anymore, I've forgotten) it would have been a bigger, better crop. I'm so happy they made anything at all considering the wetness. I took a few notes and photos of pods and flowers...

Here's a report on just the BUSH bean harvest (half-runner, pole, and Lima to come). All the 2015 bush bean photos are now posted to my Flickr account. I planted 6 of each variety, so you can see the toll 50.25 inches of rain had on the crop. 198 sown beans only yielded 434 good beans. Somewhere...

OK, before you all get TOO excited the bean photos you are looking at are the RECORD photos I took of the beans I got from @Bluejay77 and @marshallsmyth and others. I have not yet photographed the ones that were harvested from them--so, I'm afraid you guys are admiring your own work, LOL. Most...

Except for the long season types and Limas, most of the 116 kinds of beans are now harvested and counted. I'll photograph each for comparison with what was planted. Overall the excessive rains caused a lot of poor plant development like @Bluejay77 experienced and resulted in immature beans and...

Just logged in today after a month of workmen here for house repairs, so I've been away from the forum. Yes, I start half my potatoes from seed each year, and half from tubers saved from them the previous season. The only difference being the tubers have some stored energy should there be a late...

@digitS' yes, Dixondale is directly 80 miles south of me, and a bout a thousand feet lower. Ironically, their onions have always gotten confused in my garden, going to flower after 4 months of the winter warming and cooling cycle. I've had much better luck with Brown's Omaha Plant Farm onions...