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I'm not sure that it always true (given how many plants I buy end up dying of neglect) but it did work for the mini rose (p.s. it now has buds.)

Was quite busy today. Managed to get the tomato seedlings planted outside, the mung bead seedling outside (after having added the six extra beans I found, scarified this time), the cherry tomato seeds planted, the cucumbers planted, the Delaware creeping cucumbers planted, the beans planted (had...

Actually, yes they do, in their ovules. Same as they produce sperm cells in their pollinia.

Here it is (managed to drag it out from somewhere.) Scene, the lobby of a hotel. A businessman is sitting there, waiting for a fellow businessmen to take to dinner. The businessman enters. Businessman: "Mr. Wendell?" Wendell: "You Can Call Me Al." Businessman: "Waiting Too Long?" Wendell...

There is actually a SECOND number in song one can use if it's supposed to be long distance. There is a song called "2:10, 6:18, 10:44" (they're actually train times, but if you add on the song "One" in front, it makes a long distance number.) I used it when I did my two page conversation made up...

Tiny bit of luck today. While in H-mart I located a leftover bag of senna seed with an expiration date old enough to be "in the range" for what I was looking for, and so I now have four more wild mung beans seeds, as well as one small black cowpea and one more of the unknown flat legume seed to...

It's not so much that they are long season as that they are heat sensitive. Around here, the time between too cold to safely plant anything and to hot for cool weather crops is extremely narrow, and it's often TOO narrow for most things. We generally don't get a nice neat transition from winter...

Now one of the Favas also has a flower, though whether I will get any mature seed at this point is a sort of grey area (fava pods can take a LOT of time to mature, and the summer heat often makes the plant wither before they are done.) Lablab beans are also starting to come up. At the moment...

I've heard the OTHER kind of Pepino is a bit better (longer, thinner, purpler) but I've only seen that once. Ditto on the melon, like watermelon hate all other melons (well hate all other sweet melons, Winter melon is fine with me, as a soup ingredient. With the persimmons definitely. Until...

Hard to sat. I can give you a long list of ones I DON'T think are worth the cost, but as for ones that are, that's a much shorter one, and vaguer. A lot of the ones I'd recommend are a few of the milder citrus. Dekapons (usually called Sumo Mandarins) in this county, are generally pretty good...

I hope so. These aren't any of the major ones. They're Pearl chestnuts and Chinese Chinquapins (both went in, don't know which, if not both, came up) which are more like shrubs than trees. Jackfruit is very sweet. The best way I can describe the flavor is like a banana, but juicy. Not a big...

Update 5/10/24 The peas have actually started to flower (well, one has), so at least there's a good chance that, whatever else, I'll have some more seed to play around with in the future. Lost the last gherkin seedling, so I'm just going to direct seed with some cucumber seeds I found in a...

Which reminds me. If you have streaming (Amazon Prime I think, though it could be Acorn TV) there's another fun one out there. Someone did a TV movie of Tom Holt's The Portable Door, the first in the J. W. Wells and co. stories (think of Tom Holt as Terry Pratchett lite, not quite as good, but...

It's actually quite a lot more now; I left the bag I threw the "failures" in on the floor by accident and about another 200 of them have sprouted. I've tossed all of those in a big pot of soil, since trying to separate them would be impossible. All chinmarking means is having (usually) red...

Update. The Andean was a total washout, zero germination (considering it probably the oldest corn I have, not a total surprise). Ditto the Andean sweet kernels with the chinmarking (same age, so again, not surprising). But I DID get some germination from the speckled/stippled stuff. It's rather...

Oh, that. That artist does a sort of contents where he puts a bunch of random little pictures in each cartoon, and you are supposed to find them (bit like Al Hirschfeld and his "Nina's".) It's the same reason why there is an upside down bird and hat on the wall, an eyeball on the counter, an...

I should mention, I got confused when I first saw this picture, because the only "glads" I could think of were the brand of trash bags, and why would they want to bury their trash in bags. It wasn't until later I realized they probably mean "gladioli"