Jbest, thank you. I feel safer now in letting the beans grow to maturity.
Sjoerd, The scapes grow at the tip of the plant. They're actually seeds, in my opinion. On some garlic stems, the scapes grow quite large....
Aren't they just scapes, but growing in too low?
Sjoerd, Will rain harm the seed if the pods aren't dry? I hope not because they're not quite full and need more growing days.
I'm trying the Cranberry climbers just for seed this year. Next year, they will hopefully be for seed and eating. I also plant bush beans....
I have a notion that garlic does well on it's own. I have difficulty ridding the flower gardens of the scapes I threw there years ago.
Perhaps they're scapes which were premature?
Good idea, Sjoerd, regarding bee keeping. I may pass the thought along to my daughter as she is a bit younger than I am. I just visited your...
I'm wondering if I should plan to plant between the pieces of cardboard? For tomatoes and peppers, cutting through should work, but for seeding...
I gave up on growing Green peppers from seed. They never do any good, so I just buy plants locally.
Sjoerd, I'm totally jealous of your onion & garlic braids. I would never have thought to use that method. Our onions turned out so small, and I...
Harvesting is great, but Autumn clean-up is plenty of work. Still, come Spring, I'll be mighty glad that the garden is so neat. We're trying...
Blackthumb, I just ate a Dill pickle which was made with pickles we grew. I really like cucumbers, but tomatoes will always be my fav.
Carolyn, thanks for the info. She pulled the plants out, so no chance of checking for the larve. I will give her the URL and she can research.
Dooley, you're a brave soul to put out tomatoes so late, but Texas may have very different growing seasons. I hear lots of tales of woe...
[img] ( photo / image / picture from Growingpains's Garden ) Sjoerd, I guess we got about three or four potatoes per plant. Probably not a...
[img] ( photo / image / picture from Growingpains's Garden ) These are just the first harvesting, but I have no pictures of today's.
Happily I relate that the potato crop was beautiful. I'm sold on the method of mixing straw and garden soil as a planting medium. Very easy to...
And I was whining over the Groundhog feasting on our Okra, Zucchini, etc. Four really nice Zucchini ready for picking and he takes a couple of...
I just put Epsom salts around some tomatoes and some peppers yesterday. I put about a half cup in a circle around the base, dig it in a little...
