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@SusanneinHastings Top Notch beans were our favorite wax beans for several years in a row. then i tried several other wax beans but none of them seemed to do as well as Top Notch.

i wasn't planning on doing a larger batch of canning tomatoes yesterday but my sister wanted to move around so she helped Mom pick tomatoes and some of those got canned along with the tomatoes that had been sitting on the counter getting ripe enough. 15 more quarts. that kept me up late and...

that has happened to me a few times lately, waking up at 3:30am and not being able to get back to sleep. but this morning things worked out much better, i woke up to wee and then went back to sleep for a little bit, and then got up and had breakfast and went back to sleep for a few hours! i...

most of my planning usually runs several years in advance. downsizing some things and making room for other things that Mom wants more of we usually talk about this in the middle of winter and then i try to fine tune it for the various garden spaces.

i remember several trips where i spent most of the time on the ledge along the back window while my siblings were in the back seat.

we've had ours on a few times last week, but not the past few days. a few days last week we also had the heat on at night and then the day was hot and humid enough that Mom wanted the AC on (crazy talk i know...).

it could be a borderline case of BER, you won't know until you harvest and cut into some of them. this evening we were processing (just finished scalding, coring, peeling and chunking) the next round of tomatoes and a few of them looked fine from the outside but once cut into them they had...

looks like BER to me. if the tomato is in a hot location and doesn't get enough regular water. [sorry for delay, i wrote this but then got interrupted last night and failed to post it :) ]

a friend wanted some green peppers and the Beaver Dam pepper so he could dehydrate them. i picked two good boxes full plus the extra peppers i had from the other day went to him. glad to help him out as he said he was just going to place an order for a half bushel of peppers. he got about an...

i think it just happens and also is common practice in cucumber seed mixes for them to put a few off variety seeds to encourage better pollination.

very little rain here lately which is ok. i did water some bean plants and some other edge plants i wanted to keep going.

yes, this is the time of the year when beans are somewhat finishing up and they can look rather beat up between the weather, Japanese Beetles and the dropping leaves. time to get picking as soon as i can get around to it again. a lot of other things going on...

yes, and you can often divide those up into parts and plant those to get a larger patch if you need to... :)

still haven't mowed, hope to get that done today. trash day, woke up an hour and a half early... *grumpsmirk* yesterday was the odds and ends day. we had a new friend come over to help me put the replacement piece of orange stained glass up on the lighthouse (it got blown out several months...

i just take a tiny 2oz sample cup with a lid and poke a hole in the lid that the gnats and fruitflies can get through and then inside i put some vinegar with a drop of dishsoap in it. that will usually capture them and i clean i out once in a while. we don't normally have too many gnats or...

well now i see it sticking it's head out but that wasn't what i saw before. :) yes, oops... sometimes i save the images and have to magnify them to see what is going on. this time i didn't. coffee would not have helped... :)

looks like some kind of marker on it.

just the other day i was talking to Mom about how we used to stuff tomatoes with tuna salad (all cold and not cooked) which made for a good hot summer day meal. the last batch of tomatoes i have sittinig on the counter sure don't look that pretty - many of them have deep splits that i'll cut...

we used to have a clematis like that one at the end of the row. the deer and rabbits kept eating it until it gave up.

thank you @Nifty. it looks much better now. :)