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@heirloomgal , you must have perfect pea growing weather, all of your peas are beautifully filled out. I'm really glad RGV did well for you, it is a great pea. If there are any of my soup peas that you don't already have, I should send them to you (I'll PM a list). With the reduction of my...

Or Martynia (Tiger Claw, Devil's Claw) which has proven to be remarkably tolerant of my Wisconsin winters. I got it from a seed saver in Utah, to trial it as an okra substitute (there are videos of preparing the young pods). Even thus year, after 5-6 years of not growing it, a single plant...

At last, an indoor plant that suits my (Winter) personality.

I already use hay mulch around most vegetables, especially all members of the bean family (except soybeans), tomatoes, members of the gourd family (except squash, since it shelters squash bugs), and peppers planted in the open. The plants love it, and green-cut hay breaks down during the season...

The ground was dry enough a few days ago for me to work in the garden, and temps in the cool but tolerable mid-40's F. I was able to take down all the trellises & poles in the 15' X 100' garden at home. Upper 30's tomorrow, so I should be able to get the other home garden done, and mow them...

Sorry, I just couldn't take it any more... those cucumbers are too beautiful to be standing on their heads. And my neck hurts. :lol:

If you are missing having beans to shell, might I suggest a big bag of peanuts in the shell to ease the withdrawal. For most of us here, that would probably take a burlap sack. :lol:

You can 'train' bumbles not to make crosses - to a point - by the use of barrier crops. Those are flowering plants grown between different rows/poles of the same species, to give bees places to "wipe their feet" as they work their way across the garden. The barrier crop should bloom before or at...

An update. As I was cleaning, I found one of the "Argentinian White" peanuts that had fallen & rolled under a shelf... so it had cured for awhile. Since I had a pliers right there (this peanut was hard) I cracked it open & ate them raw. Not bad! Much crunchier than roasted or boiled. More...

@Phaedra , the photos of your culinary creations make me drool. Somehow I get the impression that nothing anywhere near you will ever be allowed to starve. I have a new appreciation for how that dog feels, quietly (or sometimes impatiently) watching its master eat. :lol:

I decided to retire a few months early from a company that I loved, because my DW was deathly afraid I'd bring Covid home with me. That turned out to be a good decision, because 2021 was our last year together, and I'm glad I was able to spend all of it by her side. Our time on earth is too...

Nothing is more exasperating than having a novel or inspirational thought - and having your mind immediately direct it into your mental SPAM folder, leaving only an echo, and a longing for something lost. :(

Although I've used large cages before (of concrete reinforcing wire) and the results were OK, I've found the same string trellises I use for pole beans also work well for tomatoes. It takes periodic training; but if you gently twist tomato leaves around string, they will harden like tendrils &...

(added emphasis mine) IMO that is good advice, regardless of one's growing zone. In my climate, the most important thing is for the cloves to form roots before the ground freezes, to anchor them against frost heave. So planting after the killing frost - but several weeks before the ground...

Mine is all OK, just a little smaller than expected... probably due to the very dry conditions for the first half of Summer. I'll be dehydrating it after I get over the crud; cut garlic is only slightly less irritating to a cough than cut onions. Same goes, BTW, for the hot peppers I still need...

Is that before or after consumption? :rolleyes:

Your Korean Mountain Garlic sounds a lot like this: This is Perlzweibel. Apparently a relative of elephant garlic, as indicated by the grass-like foliage, and the tiny pearl-like bulblets which form beneath the bulb. The bulb was dug up in Spring; newly harvested, both bulb & bulblets are...

Only 3 beans per packet - and out of stock??? :lol: Maybe here: Akahana mame

Hmmm... both of the pole beans I grew with that shape (True Red Cranberry and Striped Cornfield) did badly this year... and Striped Cornfield has previously been a high producer. Something weird about this year for beans. :idunno

I wish I had tried that. There was a cross in my "Elfin" grape tomato which had sweet, thin-skinned cherry-like fruit, but with the meatiness of the grape tomatoes. DW & DD both loved them; but since they were a cross, I made no effort to save seed. A cutting would have enabled me to carry the...