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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. :)

since it is raining i don't know that i'll be mowing today after all. i may just go back to sleep this morning...

annoying twits on the internet - say it ain't so!? after Eternal September (when AOL came up) it hasn't really ever been the same. before then the internet and mailing lists were kinda the domain of the computer nerds and universities and while it was never pristine it also wasn't a huge...

perhaps it's just a reference to the curly hair of the Northern Italians (and like in our case the curly red hair)? :) i dunno. always interesting these beanos... :)

washed windows outside and a few other maintenance kinds of things. temperature going up instead of staying reasonable so i better get the mowing done tomorrow.

@digitS' HG is another forum that was interesting to read and write at first but it rapidly declined (i found it rather late).

very nice looking purple bean. :) sorry it has ben a tough year...

well at least i didn't wake up at 3:30am :) 20 quarts i'll have to get out of the oven and get them marked and put into cases this morning when i do get moving. Friday already! week went by fast.

yesterday when picking i needed a snack so i was munching on a fresh tomato in the garden. for some reason in the past i've not normally done that much at all other than for cherry tomatoes (which we don't grow any longer). it was sunwarmed and delicious. at the moment i've finished rinsing...

breakfast today was some cottage cheese with a chunked up tomato on top.