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Further garden updates Tomatoes are winding down. I suppose. There's a few left out there (a couple of green and pink cherries) but everything else is in and, at this point in the year, unless we have a VERY mild fall/winter, the odds of any new fruit showing up is remote, so what few flowers...

A common bean, we established that as soon as I got it. It's just one that is too day length sensitive for someone as north as me to grow (quite possibly for anyone in the US to grow outdoors.)

I didn't say you did, I said you originally thought Ice Cream Sandwich was one. That's why you offered it to me (I was working with Lablabs at the time.)

So did Ice Cream Sandwich; that's why you initially thought it was a lablab bean.

And yet another surprise this morning. I harvested two of the last 3 Phantome du Laos tomatoes yesterday, as they were basically ripe. I did notice a slight blush on one, but I didn't think much of it. This morning, I look again, and the blushed one is now clearly turning pink! So we either have...

Looks like there may be more to that "hybrid" pear that I thought. I looked over the bag I was storing all of the fruit I collected in, and, while all of the other "normal" pears had rotted completely, that one is still as intact as when I picked it (barring a wrinkle or two) Whatever genes it...

Happy International Speak Like a Pirate Day!

On again. Off again. Gone again. - Finnegan.

Make that FIVE kernels. I cleared some more this morning and found two more ears with one kernel each (the yellow one was so deep in that I wasn't sure until I got the last husk layer off if I was feeling a kernel or a node in the stem). At least it looks like I still have the mangenta in the...

Tasted first "formal" "cucumber" today (the first one's stalk died early, causing premature ripening, so that was not a valid assessment.) For a "cucumber" that isn't really a cucumber (it's a cucumber melon, I assume), it DOES have a decent cucumber flavor. However, I'm definitely going to...

Neither have I. If I see those stripes (I usually think of them as "rays" to differentiate them from the longitudinal stripes. I tend to assume lima. This is particularly important for a few ones I have found/ seen which were missing other traditional lima bean qualities (such as seed shapes...

I don't believe it! I was pulling out some of the dead corn stalks today (both to give the still living ones more room and have the dead ones dried out in time to be Halloween decorations, and I actually DID get an ear. It's just one, and there's only three kernels (oddly, it looks like there...

Lucky day hunting yesterday. Picked up a few more rice bean bags (my lunch spot was right next door). Not only did I add a bit to my supply of red with mottle, tan, cream, tan with mottled etc., I actually found one or two that seem to be legitimately black, which is a MUCH rarer to find seed...

Picked a "smooth" pod from the wild mung pot today, and surprise, it isn't a mung at all! It's one of the super small rice beans I planted with them. So it looks like the smooth podded vines are rice beans, and the hairy podded ones are mungs. It also appears the rice beans are a LOT more...

I actually LIKE the taste of greenberry nightshade (Solanum opacum) berries, which are intensely tomato-y. The problem, as I have mentioned, is that greenberry plants look almost exactly like American Nightshade plants (S. americanum) which grow wild around here and the birds distribute...

GOING to grow next year, not have grown. Though if the taste is so unimpressive, I might not bother.

Fist two pods off the "wild mungs" harvested. Seed appears to be just flat green (so looks like domestic, which the planted stuff did not) but it hasn't dried down yet, so it may change (as I mentioned, since this is wilder material, I can't let it dry down on the plant, for fear of the pods...

Hence why I expect mass extinctions of endangered species that live within China's borders. When it comes to actually practicing environmental protection, China has a TERRIBLE track record. The can fine and arrest random private citizens for violating "rules" but when it's a state run plan, or...