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Normally I say, "to each their own", but people who don't put beans in chili are not to be trusted.

Oh, hey, I went and searched SSE's exchange for this spelling and .. found the tomato I mentioned in my last post! :D I'd never heard of them but they came up when I went looking for a picture of those beans and they have a nice site!

Oh yeah? I didn't see it on the Tomatoes page. There's a lot that show up if you search seed savers for Ukrainian. I once grew a black/purple plum type that had Ukrainian in the names but I don't remember much about it. Personally, I'm excited for 'No name pole (Ukraine)' beans :-)

I'll let quack grass dry, usually by throwing it in the raspberries, and mostly because I don't really care if it survives as long as it's outside my garden. Bishop's weed though .. that stuff is awful here. One of my spring projects is to save my favorite Iris (which I've had as long as I can...

Ahh I can't keep all the names straight. :) For the chili - it'll be just as good if you just simmer it for a couple of hours instead of canning it. It also freezes well. I went down a real rabbit hole with Aleppo type peppers years ago when Syria first started falling apart. Reading up on the...

https://www.smallhousefarm.com/product/ukrainian-pole/ Has anyone grown these? They look LOVELY! A friend of mine has some Ukrainian heritage way back, and he doesn't garden himself but likes when I show up with canned beans. I went looking for some he could connect with and .. wow! I ordered...

Hi friends! I've never paid much attention to Bokashi and the like because a) it just seemed like an internet trend and b) I have other, easier options for my compost. Anyway, long story short, winter boredom happened I've recently started playing with Bokashi to pre-ferment food scraps. It's...

Do I remember correctly that you're a canner? If so I used to love this recipe when I still ate meat. I would make a big 5 gallon pot of this, have two canners running at a time, and eat it for lunch every day at work without ever getting sick of it. If you don't want to can this I don't see any...

Roughly 0.000275 acres - a 3x4' block of a variety called Hartland that I need some new seed from :-)

Mine are all under 6-8 inches of fresh snow at the moment but there's talk of a 55F day coming some time this week so there's hope yet! Our fly date for wheat is approaching and I have a spring variety that I want to get in so things need to warm up! Edited to add: I hadn't had a notification...

Oh look, another thread that I'm not getting notifications for anymore! :( I love that folks are working on preserving Remy's varieties! I have dearly missed emailing with and ordering from her the last couple of years.

It is a hybrid, but B. rapa and B. oleracea frequently find themselves snuggling into each other's garden beds. This is where rutabagas, and I think most of B. napus varieties came from originally! Gilfeather turnips are also a rutabaga crossed back to a turnip if legend is to be believed.

I think I stopped getting notifications for this thread for some reason! I was 20 pages behind! The Promix I just bought is a 100 lb bagged ice cube. I wonder if that kills off fungus gnat eggs :-)

Ah! Sorry, I haven't gone back and read all of this thread. Old Tokyo is a very good variety!

I would vote for Senposai if your climate is anything like mine. It's less likely to bolt with less than perfect planting times and weather.

I remember reading this months ago and thinking that someone wrote the description on a Friday afternoon. Oddly it made me want to try it. :D

The first time I grew dry beans I put them in a fancy Anchor Hocking jar and displayed them for so long I was worried they wouldn't regrow :-D

My bigger remote gardens have a single strand of wire at around mid-thigh, but that's mostly to keep cows out (after they ignore their own fence?). The wire I run at home is about 6" off the ground and a few inches away from a 24" fence. It's low enough that I have to lift it to mow near the...

This is probably not useful for most people but I had a solar electric fence charger leftover from a brief stint raising grass feed beef and .. if you take a charger meant for miles of wire and you put it on a single 115' strand around a garden at squirrel height, it makes an impression. ;-)

Golden Harvest. They're a pretty standard brand for me since I live throwing distance from Canada. They're the same lids sold as Ball or Bernardin, but without the branding or designs taking up writing space, and for half the price. Pre-covid you could get them at IGAs in Quebec for $2/dozen on...