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Wouldn't know where to get chicken wire. One of the disadvantages of living suburban, there ARE no feed stores with that kind of stuff. A hardware store MIGHT have some, but it would be super expensive. But I do have a wire cloche, I'll test that out. Short term, that would be better since...

I had to stick the chestnut trees BACK IN the cold frame, as it appears something out there likes to browse on them. Though this does bring up some questions as to exactly how I can plant them. It pretty much HAS to be the deer (given the pot plus sapling height the only way a rabbit could get...

Probably from around Sirius.

We're about to get another torrent, so I can probably wait until it is over. Surprisingly, one of the Favas IS still budding and flowering. Other updates 1. The beans on the pedestal also now have buds and flowers. I think we are seeing a definite pattern here, whatever gene from the...

If it makes you feel any better, I had to listen many times before I realized they really did use the word "chunder" (Australian for "throw up")

Has anyone here ever had any luck growing Linaria? Around here, the weedy yellow toadflax (a.k.a. Butter and Eggs) grows like, well, a weed. But every time I try to sow the domestic one to get a bit more color diversity, I don't get sprout one. In fact, in my whole life, I think I've only...

One new addition on the way. I found someone on Etsy who had seed for the red-fruited nightshade I was looking for. Turns out I was looking in the wrong place (it's Africa, not India) and the wrong species (it's villosum, not nigrum, same as the ortoccoli berries). Unless there is a red fruit...

Turns out some of the beans ARE getting buds, so I guess we aren't as far off course time-wise as I thought. I also note that, of the two bud bunches I can see, one seems to be white and the other pink, so, even factoring in for the segregation by seed color and the possible diminishment of...

I've decided to take a wait an see monitoring stance. As it happens, the pot of favas is close enough to the dining room window that I can keep an eye on it without actually going outside. At the moment, I'll leave it where it is and just keep watering it. If I see any sign of drooping THEN I'll...

Few odds and ends. A trip to the bodega yesterday yielded a decent handful of "correct" fava beans, so I'm basically set for next spring. Actually, I'm wondering if I should bring the current fava beans inside for the present if we are supposed to be getting this massive heat wave...

Edibility will have to be determined later when they are ripe. If not every wild apple is good for eating out of hand, I assume the same holds true for pears. Plus, I will point out the tree is in front of an auto place; who knows what heavy metals are in the soil, so eating a lot of the fruit...

More feral fruity news. As we were leaving the area we were in today, I suddenly noticed that a tree in front of an automotive repair area we passed is covered with small pears (pear pears, not Callery/Bradford type pears.) This one should be EASY to sample when it is ready; it's literally one...

Wheat (or barley, or rye.)

No real news from my garden, but I do have some tidbits from the greater green world around me. First bit : My errands today took me to the parking lot where the "Kisco Spitter: wild apple tree is, so I did my usual check to see if it was still alive. To my shock, not only has it recovered...

Looks like the AW have a new album

Moved the Holy Basil to a bigger pot. Harvested a few peas whose pods had dried out beyond any recovery. Will wait for seed to dry before taking picture, both to see if any are mature enough to dry down to anything useful and because they will look totally different dry than they do now (the...