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(knocks twice on a pipe.)

"Beaker" if you mean the vessel. He is Beeker.

By now, I've harvested 4-5 pods from the cowpea (with plenty to go) First berry on the red nightshade turning. In less positive news, there seems to be something wrong with my green cherry tomatoes; they're extremely bitter. And one of the Hooker's chives plants has a flower spike/scape.

Tons of people have done this one (Dolly Parton included,) but most go slow and bitter. This is how Billy Ed Wheeler intended (fast and agitated), turned up to 11 (you can hear the fear.)

Not even close. Other countries have other idea about the flavors potato chips should come in. Iberian ham is a popular one in Spain (along with chorizo, lemon pepper, fried egg, caviar, truffle, etc. Think prosciutto flavor. Britain's smoky bacon crisps are similar, while, over here, I suppose...

If you ever wondered where Phil Harris's "The Thing" came from, this is it.

Finally have a cucumber started.

Someone I knew said they hadn't lived until they tried the Iberian ham potato chips I found (well, they said they were "life changing".)

I smell a rat, or rather, a hinny.

Don't really remember the name. Someone's name Yellow Wild Currant, I think.

FINALLY some pods on the cowpea! Pods on all the common beans as well. Still nothing with the rice beans. If they fail, I really should toss the regular red ones (they're taking up a lot of room), but I have reservations. It's like this-this is the first time I've grown rice beans under...

1. I was right, the first flowerer in the S. villosum pot was a weed S. americanum that got in, so I pulled it (waiting on pulling second until a berry ripens and I am sure. 2. Second flush of bean flowers doesn't seem to be taking, so pods left may be last ones (plants are developing the...

The only idea I've had is the apple stock is dwarf, and they wanted to keep them short (except I'm fairly sure there are dwarf crab rootstocks as well). And, of course, "eating" is a relative term. I was using it in the sense of "Malus domestica, as opposed to other species of Malus." They...

New summer, new surprise. I was back over the bridge today, and so decided to investigate something I thought I had seen last time. As we were driving out of a parking lot (I swore I saw apples growing on one of the shrubs.) So off I plodded across the parking lot. When I got to the shrub, I...

They are pretty, but you never quite get used to the sound in the fall/winter when the wind rattles the pods on the branches (A. lebbek, from India, is commonly called "woman's tongue tree" for the noise it makes.) I personally have a soft spot for A. guachapele (South America), since I think...

General updates 1. First round of beans collected. A few mature, but mostly not; the weather tricked me (I'm used to beans being mature when the pods feel hollow, but dry weather made this happen early). Plants are still there, but only one is making more flowers and pods. 2. Looks like the...