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I'm really not, now that I think they are hot peppers.

Now the beans are getting a bit interesting. I've gotten at least one pods worth with a soldier/orca pattern (won't know which until it dries down and I can see it clearer) and one with a "tip" (white patch at one end).

Oh, and since the flexuosum peppers didn't work, I ordered a different one for next year. I'm trying lanecolatum, as it seemed to be the only non spicy wild pepper the seller on Etsy had.

7/21/24 FINALLY got a pod whose seeds have streaks! Though whether it will be white with lavender or tan with black I can't tell yet (I know white can turn to tan over time due to oxidation, but, based on last year, if they are going to be tan, they will be tan as soon as they dry.)

It was Baker Creek. I think it was Joe who did the actual wheels. I know I was waiting for those yellow and black limas to get on the market, but I don't think he has released them yet.

I think part of it may be that the common bean was actually domesticated TWICE, in two different regions (Mesoamerica and the Andean region.) So there is probably a lot of genetic variation between the two groups and so lots of odd combinations that can show up. Cow peas may have a similar...

Opened a few more bean pods, and I'm a bit baffled. As yet nearly ALL of them are white seeded and the few that aren't are a VERY pale purple. Given that EVERYTHING planted that has been harvested from was brown, brown with black streaks, or black (the white seeded ones haven't flowered yet, as...

I also saw a odd seed in some of the September 2025 batch of senna, which let to me getting the last three bags. Besides that seed (another of those white ones that looks a little like a peppercorn I haven't managed to get to germinate yet, I also got a few more wild soybeans and two more wild...

Harvested first common bean pod yesterday (and second today) haven't opened today's yet, but yesterday seems to be white seeds (despite coming from the mottled tan opt) so I guess they aren't done segregating. Actually, A LOT of the pods feel "hollow" indicating they are mostly finished), but I...

Two major updates 1.Some of the wild mungs are getting flowers (and even the start of a pod or two) so I should be able to get seed back well within the season. 2. One of the cornstalks is just beginning to get its tassel.

Problem is you never really know what is going to become a weed when you sow it. It took us years to get rid of the Japanese Lanterns, and the Peruvian Four O' Clocks. And I certainly didn't EXPECT that the senna seeds and rice beans I tossed our for the critters to eat would wind up hiding in...

As I mentioned, I have seen a double sized one, so they might be bigger in other places. But if they are flat, and an all over cream color, they're probably arvensis Well, I don't think red exists in the truly wild population, it's a bred color mutation. I was simply pointing I have noticed...

Well, my mead IS powerful...... And then there was the time I jacked a batch three times, winding up with a test tube full of something my cousin compared to the "homebrew" vodka he had encountered in Russia!

Nah, he just is drunk (here's what I am referencing)

If they're REALLY tiny (like pencil eraser sized*), that's V. arvensis, field pansy. Solid color for any of them is not all that uncommon. Pretty much anything you can find in a big pansy, you can find in a small viola (though, as I have mentioned, bright red is largely missing from the...

Well, I harvested the first two mature pods from off the "rice bean" and, surprise surprise, it's actually a mung bean plant! Well, I guess that explains where it came from and how it go there! (the pot of soil I was using had been inside for a while; a mung bean could have easily fallen in...

Probably. Could also be horned Pansy, Viola cornuta. To be honest, between the fact they cross pretty readily and have both be bred so much, telling when one is a cornuta or a tricolor is a little hard for me. That's certainly a very common color mix for Johnny Jump Ups. As far as I know the...