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Now one of the Favas also has a flower, though whether I will get any mature seed at this point is a sort of grey area (fava pods can take a LOT of time to mature, and the summer heat often makes the plant wither before they are done.) Lablab beans are also starting to come up. At the moment...

I've heard the OTHER kind of Pepino is a bit better (longer, thinner, purpler) but I've only seen that once. Ditto on the melon, like watermelon hate all other melons (well hate all other sweet melons, Winter melon is fine with me, as a soup ingredient. With the persimmons definitely. Until...

Hard to sat. I can give you a long list of ones I DON'T think are worth the cost, but as for ones that are, that's a much shorter one, and vaguer. A lot of the ones I'd recommend are a few of the milder citrus. Dekapons (usually called Sumo Mandarins) in this county, are generally pretty good...

I hope so. These aren't any of the major ones. They're Pearl chestnuts and Chinese Chinquapins (both went in, don't know which, if not both, came up) which are more like shrubs than trees. Jackfruit is very sweet. The best way I can describe the flavor is like a banana, but juicy. Not a big...

Update 5/10/24 The peas have actually started to flower (well, one has), so at least there's a good chance that, whatever else, I'll have some more seed to play around with in the future. Lost the last gherkin seedling, so I'm just going to direct seed with some cucumber seeds I found in a...

Which reminds me. If you have streaming (Amazon Prime I think, though it could be Acorn TV) there's another fun one out there. Someone did a TV movie of Tom Holt's The Portable Door, the first in the J. W. Wells and co. stories (think of Tom Holt as Terry Pratchett lite, not quite as good, but...

It's actually quite a lot more now; I left the bag I threw the "failures" in on the floor by accident and about another 200 of them have sprouted. I've tossed all of those in a big pot of soil, since trying to separate them would be impossible. All chinmarking means is having (usually) red...

Update. The Andean was a total washout, zero germination (considering it probably the oldest corn I have, not a total surprise). Ditto the Andean sweet kernels with the chinmarking (same age, so again, not surprising). But I DID get some germination from the speckled/stippled stuff. It's rather...

Oh, that. That artist does a sort of contents where he puts a bunch of random little pictures in each cartoon, and you are supposed to find them (bit like Al Hirschfeld and his "Nina's".) It's the same reason why there is an upside down bird and hat on the wall, an eyeball on the counter, an...

I should mention, I got confused when I first saw this picture, because the only "glads" I could think of were the brand of trash bags, and why would they want to bury their trash in bags. It wasn't until later I realized they probably mean "gladioli"

Okay. The good news is I managed to dig out some replacement corn to plant. | The bad news is that it is just as old, if not older, so I have to assume it also will have pretty terrible germination. So, rather than trying to put it directly into the peat plugs (which I wouldn't have nearly...

It looks like I may quite possibly have to re-think my corn plans. I set up my corn kernel boxes eight days ago, so, last night, I opened them to check status (that's how it works, plant them, check in a week, remove the ones that have not germinated, put the boxes back for another week, re-open...

More than you think, considering that, as far as it appears, the alien's body isn't fossilized, or even decomposed (that arm still looks pretty fleshy to me, unless it's wearing a space suit).

At this point, basically just drumming my fingers, waiting until it's time to start the hotboxes for the corn. More accurately, waiting for it to get warm enough reliably I can set the tomatoes and have ROOM to start the hotboxes for the corn (and be able to clear space in the cold frame to move...