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The seed sowing continues, even though today and tomorrow are not the best days for planting anything but leaf crops according to the lunar calendar. I felt the seeds needed to go in from a time perspective though. Luckily the danger in the next 2 days is rot, from water energy being...

A new plant I'm growing for 2026 - Jaltomato Aguaymato. Growing info is a bit elusive, I'm going on a wing and prayer with this one.

I ordered some iris's online last night, now that is a first for me! I've come by the only 2 iris varieties I've ever grown by a neighbour giving me some, and I saw a nice one at a greenhouse 2 years ago. I only have one left now. So, seeing as I've been so happy with the remaining one (now...

Me too, I always hesitated to consider the lunar calendar in my sowing plans because I usually feel like my plate is full as it is, without yet another consideration to have to factor in. It was when I was planting some ground cherries a few years ago & noticed a big shift in germination rates...

I'm really surprised to read that you've grown Ukrainian Pole twice and both times it didn't produce well? I've only grown it one time but it really yielded heavily? One of the tops in 2025. But I guess with beans, they can be such fickle plants. One year they're happy, another year not so...

I'm thinking sowing is the putting of seeds in soil and planting as transferring seedlings into the outdoor garden? I'm not 100% sure. I'm not even certain the last 2 days were ideal for potting up into bigger containers, or what that's called on the calendar? I guess I'm pretty loosey goosey...

Spent the whole evening thinning seedlings and transplanting the selected ones to larger pots. Feels great to be done! Looking at my Physalis peruviana seedlings I'm reminded of how important it is to not let them sit too long without transplanting. The ones in the yogurt container were just...

Beautiful bean boards @Fasol.

Thank you for posting this @Alasgun!

Those are amazing lights! I didn't realize that there was adjustable settings for brightness, wow. Something to think about for sure as a future investment. The jimmy rigging of raising and then lowering my cell packs to the light is always a problem.

Sadly, they aren't. But! Luckily these packets are pretty full. I think they used a small scoop to fill most of them so I taped shut the worst packets and will have to accept the bit of loss. I'm thinking scoop because the bean chaff in here is wild. Some of the beans are wrinkled little...

The journey with my last big bean order of the season ended with a comedic flourish. I can't begin to describe the hiccups along the way to get this parcel here, it's been an interesting ride. I was astonished to see that when it finally arrived at the door the 50 or 60 bean packets were not...

My old pepper seeds are all sprouting so well, I can't quite believe it. They have been pokier than the old tomato seeds, but they are coming up with near perfect germ rates. Wow. My basement is chilly at floor level, cold enough that I need a thick pillow to sit on to file stuff down there...

How on earth do you keep the panels so pristine white in a greenhouse!? I can barely keep my wood surfaces in mine from looking like a mechanics shop.

The look of 'Schneebohne' for some reason always brings to my mind yogurt covered raisins...

My bad, it was King of the Garden I was thinking of that's a lima bean. https://victoryseeds.com/products/king-of-the-garden-pole-lima-bean Wow, I have no idea what that bean is then. It actually looks quite like @Blue-Jay 's 'Candy' bean, which is a semi. I'm not sure from the photo if...

A lovely day of planting. ☺️ My first time ever of growing a large variety of alliums from seed, I did several jumbo cell packs of them. Most of the packages indicated they need cold stratification so I put them in the sun room. I tried a packet last year and nothing sprouted, but I kept them...

I've grown most of those @Heliena, except Shirazi & KOTN. I think King of the North is a lima bean. Skunk & Khabarovsk are really nice producers. Love those big ole beans! Amethyst I believe was probably logically named by someone who knew the origin of that bean, but its name is actually...

Seedlings! One chartreuse leaf variety this year, in a micro dwarf! 'Tigret Yellow'. The 'Indigo Orange Supertruss' tomato already showing its purple anthocyanin genes! A picture of happiness. That lone little noodle neck is the LAST seed I had of 'Damskie Palchiki' tomato. One seed, and...

I grew them as network beans last summer and failed terribly. I could not get it to mature, even with starting early in pots & picking the pods off before a frost in October and letting them dry indoors. The pods were just so immature for me even in October when I brought them in. I'm...