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A very late 2024 bean list, and a very late garden thus year. The weather has not been cooperative, so these (and everything else I intend to grow this year) have only today been started in pots: Common beans: - Bosnian Pole (pole snap) - Emerite (pole snap) - Giant Red Tarka (bush shelly) -...

If the favas are in pots, they might benefit from wrapping the outside of the pots with aluminum foil, to reflect heat & keep the soil cool(er). Based upon my experiment of mulched vs. unmulched last year, favas are more likely to be damaged by warm soil than warm air. And to echo @heirloomgal...

That should be really pretty when the Insuk's Wang Kong starts flowering. This is how they look in bloom:

I think that worked @digitS' - the tornadoes all broke up before they reached me. No hail either (which didn't matter anyway, since nothing is planted yet). It undoubtedly helped that the squall line arrived late, as the storms were weakening... had they arrived an hour earlier, things might...

MULTIPLE tornado warnings just west of me, a whole line of them. Hope I can get this out before I lose power. :ep

To keep some of the house plants healthy, I leave the LED lights in the dining & living rooms on during the day, for supplemental light. I dug up a clump of lemongrass before frost (including all the soil in the root ball) and placed it in a 5 gallon bucket with about 3" of water. Other than...

IMO the salt will be your biggest challenge; plants can be very intolerant of that. Raised beds certainly, preferably on the side of the house which will provide some shelter from the salt spray. I concur with @flowerbug ; look for any nearby neighbors with vegetable gardens, they might save you...

Well I finally got over the crud enough to play with dirt & start this year's peppers indoors. Those marked "*" are seed crops: * Amfora (large sweet, conical) Beaver Dam (large hot, conical) * Cardinal Black (sweet, bell-like) * Early Jalapeno (hot, last year's crop failed) Greygo (large...

The branch that fell on my car was only 1" wide, so no damage. To judge by all of the low-bent branches I shook snow off of (which then bounced back up) the branch didn't fall far. Fortunately for me, the utility line tree trimmers had just come through the day before (well timed!!!) or there...

The snow was coming down as slush here, in big clumps like wet snowballs, You could feel those snowballs hit, and hear them on the roof of the car - kind of like soft hail. The wet snow stuck to everything, almost like an ice storm. I lost a lot of tree branches (one fell on my car) and there...

@flowerbug , methinks that we took the title of this thread way to literally. Derailments happen; but only here do people jump on even as the train goes off the tracks - which is part of what makes this forum feel like family. :) I blame my present mood on Seasonal Affective Derangement. 🤣 But...

TM's claims would be more credible if they would recall the Kraken.

Perhaps the Employees are revolting, because the Food served by Management is revolting. The Employees will return when the Food stops returning.

Peat pots can be useful for fast-growing transplants, which won't spend much time in the pots. I've used them for beans & cucurbits for many years, with great results. But having observed that the roots of some plants had difficulty penetrating the pot sides, I make a point of cleaning out the...

Perhaps the Vignas too? I was thinking about the Asian yardlong beans, and wondering not only how long they have been cultivated (I've never been able to determine that) but whether those beans ever traveled the Silk Road. Cowpeas from Africa certainly could have found their way in from the...

I had thought that the beans in that story were runner beans,; but if the tale is that old, those were probably unknown & undiscovered at that time. Ditto for common pole beans, which also originated in the Americas.

A feline photographer? "Come closer, I just want a close-up. Really. Not like I'm thinking about eating you or anything."

Like many store-bought fruits, they benefit from some at-home ripening. I like the red ones; when ripe & cut in half, you can scoop the middle out with a spoon. They are widely available now; I'd probably eat them more often if they weren't so expensive. There is a yellow-skinned version too -...

Hmmm... I might have to do this just to see if I can, since I have very little experience in propagating via cuttings (DW was the expert on that). That might teach me what I need for a more important project. DW left me some potted Sampaguita (the national flower of Philippines) given to her by...