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Well, I generally assume white seeds and white flowers often (though not always) indicate lower amounts of those anti-pest compounds that make the seeds less tasty/more toxic. That was one of the reasons I was interested in trying to grow white seeded horse gram; it seemed to be one of the few...

Technically had my first harvest today. The seeds on the coriander went gold, so I decided it was time to harvest (well, okay some still had a bit of a green tinge, but since they had all literally split on top due to the rain, and we have more rain coming, I thought picking them a little green...

Amongst the teas I can get from one of my companies is a "tea" (quotes becuase it does not come from Camellia sinensis, so technically, like all "herbal" teas, it's actually a tisane.) from China called Old Eagle tea. When I bought it, they said it had "the odor of camphor". when I made some, I...

I did once bump into a tea that was so heavy on the lavender and rose it was undrinkable, so we used it as potpourri.

Tinga flowers are open! They're quite a bit bigger than I thought they would be. Oh, and it looks like the Syrian Oregano has been throwing its seed around, there are at least seven more tiny plants scattered all over the patio (three in cracks in the patio itself, four in the long pot closest...

I've never eaten them either; the only time I had enough leftovers to consume any, those leftovers were infested with weevils, so eating them was off the table. And I still haven't had any luck growing my own. Yes, green guar pods (usually called guwar) are a popular vegetable in India. You...

Only real new news is that, while cleaning out the box of Bambara groundnuts THOROUGHLY, and actually MOVING them all from cell to cell, I found ONE more seed (and therefore one more chance) to grow a black seeded guar bean. I'm sort of on the fence about the tan/grey guar (i.e. the "normal"...

"Mayonnaise rots in the hot sun, I fought the slaw and the slaw won, I fought the slaw and the slaw one."

Like most of what I grow, it has no formal variety name. I found a few of them five or six years ago mixed into bags of red lentils from India (back in college, I'd find them a LOT in there, same as the small grass pea seeds, but both were much sparser the second time I encountered them.) I...

Round the Garden Roundup. 1. I actually DO see some pods developing on a few of the Fava beans (not many, but we don't tend to get very good fava pollination anyway, and I count us lucky we've even gotten them all to flower this year. 2. Seedlings starting to appear in the Cherry Tomato pot...

Yes. I meant "African" in the sense of the varieties coming from Africa. Pretty much all of the ones I have came from buying out Richter's supply of something they called "Speckled Grey" from the Seed Zoo. They treated it as a single variety with a variable expression, but I quickly discovered...

I HAVE managed to find the box with my African common beans, but I am sort of on the fence about whether I should try and plant them THIS year. On one hand, I DO have some spare space left, and they CERTAINLY could use a regenerative grow out. (I expected them to go from the dead white and...

Delaware Creeping Cucumber is the name the ESN gave to a very northern hardy strain of what is more commonly known as the Guadeloupe cucumber, Meliothera pendulata . It's basically like M. scabra, the Mexican Sour Gherkin, but smaller, and you have to eat them before they are ripe (ripe, they...

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...