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@digitS' yes, Dixondale is directly 80 miles south of me, and a bout a thousand feet lower. Ironically, their onions have always gotten confused in my garden, going to flower after 4 months of the winter warming and cooling cycle. I've had much better luck with Brown's Omaha Plant Farm onions...

We hired SeedO to come down for the summer as a farm intern since he has been keen on experiencing desert farming. Only it's been wetter here than Seattle, so we haven't even had to irrigate. There are lots of unfinished homesteading projects left over from last summer, so if it would just stop...

@Bluejay77 sorry to hear you lost so many beans, that is a tragedy! We've had almost six inches of rain in three days from 'Bill' and I think we are over 40 inches so far here in the desert, with the fall rainy season yet to come. I have not had to irrigate at all!!! SeedO is here helping me...

We got another 2.75" this morning. That's almost six inches in three days. In the desert. I've lost track, but I think we are around 40 inches this year so far and our 'rainy' season is yet to come in the fall.

We got 2.5" and .9" from Bill. This much humidity is rough on me and the garden!

Yup, @Bluejay77 he knows exactly where Merengo is located! :) Wish my soil looked like yours!

That's what I do @Bluejay77 . I've found that planting what I have alphabetically by bean form that usually the seed coats are quite different, and when they are not I swap a few out. I recycle grocery bags and write each name on with a sharpie, and harvest accordingly. In previous years I had...

@teamnue Yes, I am familiar with that ride, I always had to schedule mine around it. Your ride took you right by my place. Thanks for introducing me to the art of Greg Glowka, it's very evocative of the places I see around me. I am also an artist but I mostly do still lifes with birds.

Oh dear! Young dogs get into mischief, it seems to be their middle name. We crate several of our dogs at night. One loves his bed, the other chewed his to shreds and gets old towels instead which he respects for a while, then one day will chew them to bits. We started out crating one in the...

@teamneu Yes, this place provides many experiences that make me feel alive. Funny you should mention 'near Leakey' as your place of experiencing wonder and aliveness because that's where I am...undoubtedly you cycled down my scenic road, as all cyclists do :) This is a magical place when it's...

@teamnu were you in east Texas where they are rare? Unfortunately my Texas experience has been the opposite of yours--I saw my first one from a distance while driving in the panhandle on my way to Colorado during my college years. Then several decades ago one passed over a building I was working...

Welcome @cstronks!

I let my teparies dry on the bush, but I pick them morning and evening so I get them before they shatter, as do many of my Lima's. @marshallsmyth I think of teparies and favas as the steaks of the bean kingdom. Haven't had too much luck growing the latter, but I'm still working on it...

@Hal the teparies aren't blooming yet. If they behave like last year's it will be a month or so while they become a large prostrate bramble before they bloom. As I recall it was September-October before I began to harvest them. They have just begun to branch, probably behind schedule from lack...

Bay, we had sunshine today and have stars and moon tonight. I had forgotten those existed! Only today did I see this photo a friend had posted. It is from last summer's tornado that hit our place taken from about 40 miles away.

We got another 1.6" last night, the crossings are closed. The soil is so saturated any amount of rain will again cause flooding. We got more rain today, I haven't gone out to check the gauge again. I read that we've had enough rain to cover the entire state of Texas with 8" of water!

@Hal, I have a few short rows in the field that are doing well. However, I'd also planted some as an experiment down in the creek like the Puebloans do, and they washed away in the flood. I will replant them once I know we are out of flood danger. The soil is so saturated here any amount of...

@so lucky The winds have flattened my tomatoes twice, and I've just stood their cages back up. They are so spindly and with big fruits that look like ornaments on a Charlie Brown Christmas tree! I missed the window to plant squash and melons because it was just too mucky to work the field...

Out of 115 kinds of beans, I report that the LEBN specimen, Imbotyi Chaphaza, which was planted later than the others was one of the first of two to bloom and put on pods! It has a sweet pink flower. The Nyimo beans are doing OK. So far the Imbotyi Chaphaza is only 6 inches tall, but then...

More like chickens in central Texas! Fortunately the worst of the storm passed us by now it's just lightly raining. The white blooms are yucca flowers.