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Successful & not so successful adventures in winnowing. 🌬️ I made quite a few mistakes with how I proceeded this year with the few that needed this. Waiting until now to do this was the big one. I really crumbled the very dried lettuce stalks 👇too much, and am now left with lots of bits I...

@Decoy1 I didn't realize that you were such an avid lettuce grower! I would love to know your favorite varieties, lettuce is just so wonderfully diverse. If I had a longer season I would really move in the direction of lettuce seed saving, because I do enjoy eating those fresh leaves so much...

This fall I've felt a little more burn out than the usual post seed processing & harvest, post fall garden clean up slump. Realistically, it was a super busy summer and every single day had a calculated purpose or plan, there was not a single down day. DD's bubbling enthusiasm for free diving...

I finally did a count on this years number of bean varieties. 🥳 This is always somewhat thrilling because from start to finish when it comes to growing I don't keep track of numbers, I just plant 'em and hope I can find space. (That's probably a bad strategy, but hey, so far it's worked! lol)...

This whole 'gen' language among the teenagers is interesting to me; as many times as my kids explain to me what each one is I just can't remember it. When DD and DS were first mentioning this 'gen alpha' thing I was like, is that a sports team?? I can't seem to even remember which gen I am. lol

Yes, 100% true to type. I think I grew 4 plants altogether. In your climate, do you find these a fairly easy to mature bean even if a bit late?

So that's where the navy reference comes from! Wow, all this time I had no idea! That is the neatest historical tidbit.

Been thinking about seed vaults lately. 🤔 I really do wonder what the percentages are in public opinion for and against Svalbard? I feel like in the beginning there was mixed feelings, some was definitely positive. But now that almost 20 years has passed I wonder what the tally is. I feel...

That's my association with the pea reference as well, the small white Navy beans. But I have grown the Inca Pea bean too, so I've come to have that connection as well. I'd guess with the Navy beans they get the pea title because they're comparable to whole dried peas for cooking, similar look...

It was such a pleasure this year to grow the 'St. Anthony' bean. So grateful to you @Decoy1 because that bean has been on my wish list for a long time, and I was quite convinced fate would likely not arrange it. It was a stunning plant, just enormous. The seeds are really, really lovely. I...

Are pea beans different than regular beans in some regard? Is the term pea meant to denote a particular kind of use?

Interesting to know that you grow Autumn King and Amsterdam with good results, maybe I shouldn't write them off yet. They were both fairly small for me, with skinny bottoms and much bigger tops. They were Thompson & Morgan seed packets I think, not typical carrots grown in my area. Maybe...

It comes as somewhat of a surprise to me that long carrots would be a preference. Mind you, I don't have a lot of experience with Imperator types, or Imperator itself. One of my first dog eared garden books was by Lois Hole, and it was through her that I learned that Imperator was bred for...

The carrot experiment has officially reached completion. It has been quite interesting really, more so than I expected it to be. Getting a nice big harvest of indistinguishable carrots would have been fine; I wasn't convinced there was going to be that much difference between carrots. I am...

I would love to be on a ton of mailing lists, but sadly I'm not. We don't have many seed places that seem to offer paper copies. I do buy Baker Creek's each year, and I do get Richter's, but I think that's it. I need to get me some real hook up culture with these seed shops that send out...

I looove when Richter's new catalogue comes out! ⏳

I'm so sorry to read this ducks, sending love and prayer your way. :hugs

I feel like so many people have some knowledge or experience of horseradish. I have none. I'd never seen it until I bought a small plant this spring and I don't think I've ever eaten any. From what people shared about it last time I mentioned horseradish, it seems like an almost weedy plant...

My Pink Tip beans were the white seeded ones on the right @ruralmamma , I guess I should have added Greasy to the name when I referenced it. I forgot that there are a couple beans with Pinktip in the name!

I wonder too, I quite like that coloration. It seems a uniquely European bean seedcoat.