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Picked these tomatoes this year for their names, 'Great Scott' (an expression I've always found so cute) and 'Cinnamon Girl'. Cinnamon Girl was bred by a Canadian woman with a rather popular line of tomatoes called KARMA. This one is a cinnamon colored cherry tomato, resistant to cracking...

Happy belated birthday to Rome! 🇮🇹 Rome celebrates its 2,779th birthday April 21st marking the legendary founding of the city by Romulus on this day in 753 BC. I didn't know until this year that it's also called the 'Eternal City'. Every year on April 21st, at precisely 12:00 PM, a beam of...

Sure @oxbow farm, I don't have a link because I used an AI research tool so I copied and pasted the info here. I think bee information would be pretty specific to region, and I'd think Brazil would be quite different than North America, though I haven't researched it so am not sure. Funny to...

I checked for fun on this bee situation, as I've always wondered myself. Europe has between 2,00 - 2,500 kinds of bees and North America has 4,000 - 4,500. A number of North America's bees are invasive imports; the honey bee, giant resin bee, wool carder bee and the horned face bee are all...

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...