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Oh wow, this is good to know. I had no idea about that. I guess the bees are very attracted to the flowers of limas, like runner beans? I'm glad I read this before planting time.

Tonight's agenda is to - finally - create the tomato list for this year. I've been so swamped with so many things there has not been time for it, and it's so fun! So I'm kinda excited to get to it. I do have all the other plants mapped out and documented, so this is the last grow list for the...

Thanks for the tip @Neen5MI! It's so pretty!

Touchdown! The beans have arrived! :weee Thanks so much @Blue-Jay! Wow, feels like And thank you for the tomato seeds! Definitely on the grow list for this year!

Wow! You're getting the snow too! We finally got out to a walk the dog today and there's such deep snow accumulated in the forest that the moose and deer have resorted to using our machine groomed snowmobile trails to be mobile. They left a bunch of gifts on the trail.

I can honestly attest that those bagged carrots were as good as any homegrown carrots I've ever had. I would never have believed such a thing could be possible, but they are that good!

So excited, looks like all my beans will arrive tomorrow! I guess given that we just had the snowpocalypse it might be an extra day I guess. Not all the streets are open yet, but I'm hopeful! 🤞

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A shocking discovery. On a whim I bought a bag of 'rainbow' carrots, most of which was whitish ones with one or two oranges and a purple in there. I can't decide if they're actually white ones or not, because peeled they look a wee bit yellow to me. Anyway, these are the finest bagged carrots...

Thanks @Shades-of-Oregon , it's been quite an experience to experience the infrastructure of life and mobility be fully halted. I'll never take having roads to drive on for granted again!

That's interesting. The year I grew Fountain Pitts from Mandy I got some offtypes just like that red one.

This is what everyone woke up to today. What's so funny is this was already the most brutal winter! The entire city is closed down, everything, highways too. Snowmobiles are driving on what used to be streets, now winter trails. Side streets aren't plowed so nobody can move. I shoveled...

Yeah, if a bear or dog clobbers you, you're supposed to get out your phone and call 911, lol. :lol: And I don't have a cell phone, so...I guess I'm outta luck on that.

An important post for seed savers. 🌱 I've learned that with seed exchanges, it's important to pay attention. Here, there is a small army of volunteer growers around the country that receive seed in the spring and grow it out for the national seed exchange, and mail back seed in fall. The...

I wish we had those freedoms @Alasgun, hopefully someday. Here, if someone breaks into your home you have no legal right to protect yourself, let alone against a dog. Because this isn't the first time its happened, I consulted with animal control about it years ago and alas no options that...

Well, yesterday life presented this wannabe shelter dog trainer with an unpleasant reality. I've been so focused on acquiring dog skills the last 5 years, thinking I'd gain enough knowledge and skills. And I crashed headlong into a major limitation I have. Yesterday on a walk with the kids &...

@Blue-Jay I don't know if it's realistic to ask you this since you have so many limas in your huge collection, but just off the top of your head, is there any that come to mind as being especially early? Or do you think that they're all, more or less, just a late maturing species? I have...

This week is the last one for ordering seeds! 2026 is gonna be some fun. I have gotten enough packs of sweet pea flower seeds to last me for a few years! But I was on a kick with them, and there seemed a bunch of new ones out and I felt like it was now or never. Small seeds shops seem to...

Draper's Glen :love. Something about beans with that faint speckle makes me swoon. :th