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Miner's Lettuce now in flower. I'm also noticing something odd about the newest holy basil plants. They don't look quite like the originals (which are still there; basil is perennial if you take it in over the winter,) they don't smell like them, and they don't ACT like them (they handle heat...

A selection of my own. I call them "Velcro" or "sticky" chickpeas. They're a desi (grinding type) with a seed coat covered in small raised bumps that make them stick to things like burrs do. Not great for eating (desi skins are too thick for eating whole, and the bumps make them impossible to...

First cherry tomatoes have flowers, as do a few of the red nightshades. Few rice beans are developing tendrils. Something are the chickpea pod, but there are a lot more flowers (though maybe I should put the pot on a pedestal to protect any future pods.)

Once in a while, when I have gotten exotic species of seeds and nuts for planting, I will sacrifice ia few to consume, so I can know what they taste like. I did it with the Hind's Walnuts (not all that different from Black in taste), with the Skittle Nuts (because I'd heard they were better than...

1. By now, ALL bean plants have flowers. Pity I lost so much diversity (apart from the one plant from the first try, all of them could be the same type.) 2. Still don't know if the rice beans are pole or bush, but they are already taller than they tend to get in The Stump (and the fact they...

Shumble (shamble + stumble)= The gait you adopt when you are dead on your feet exhausted (worse than shambling, this is where you trip on thing in you path because you don't have the energy to lift your feet high enough to get over them.)

1. Cukes finally up (well, some of them). 2. Think I got my hands on some backup mini Glass Gem (in case mine next year proves so old as to be totally dead.)

Bean is in the name because they ARE beans, in the sense of being in the Fabaceae family. And they come in pods. What else would they be called.

1. First bean plant has first pods. 2. Local bodega got in Ice Cream Beans (Inga edulis) Don't really taste like ice cream to me (more like mangosteen,) but not bad.

One update. I may have gotten a sprout in the Miner's Lettuce pot (forgot to mention that one.) I don't see the round leaves yet, but maybe those come later.

One notable event. The one surviving bean plant from the first planting; despite still being very short (shorter, in fact, than any of the second planting,) is already covered with flower buds. Maybe our continued cold, rainy weather is stressing it to the point where it's gone into...

And things get worse. Only ONE of the white/yellow leftovers germinated, so I've got the same 24 seedlings as before (one of the original ones died). The others are in limbo (not germinated, but not moldy either,) so I'm giving them more time. What's still there is healthy, but, thanks to...

5/4/25 Finally opened the wet paper towel box I was pre-germinating the corn in, and results are abysmal. Out of the probably 3-400 kernels I put in, only 24 germinated, and given that being perpetually busy meant I gave them 2 weeks rather than 1, and the mold that developed, it's clear all...