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I've been using them in meals since they started to ripen. Today is cucumber, potatoes, green peppers and onions with eggs. I'm hoping to get ideas of how to preserve some of it. I have four more seed cucumbers out there. *edited to fix a mistake. I wrote zucchini rather than cucumber

Build a recipe My garden is running late--I had my first tomato sandwich of the season this week and I'm swimming in cucumbers. I pulled two of my seed cucumbers today, the seeds are in a jar, but I want to do something with the full grown cucumber. I've been doing watermelon and cantaloupe...

I don't know if it would work for everyone, but I ground up horseradish into a slurry and poured it in their holes, around plants I wanted to protect, and across the forecasted route. Usually took about a week for them to vacate for the season.

It may come down to importing native bees eventually. Ground nesting bees, mason bees. All I have seen in the last three years is carpenter bees. I've been pollinating my fruit trees with a paintbrush this year. Fine when it's a few blossoms on immature trees, but next year... I mow around...

This area has been mowed grass for so long that both pollinators and predators are in short supply. I need to have reliable flowers before I can expect either to return. It wouldn't be fair to bring in a beehive only to have them travel miles after the redbuds stop blooming. I'll be planting...

I spiked the search engines once by using the word parthenogenesis.

What is TEG? I don’t think ypu meant Thromboelastography.

I just hit the buy button at Experimental Seed Network. 🤦‍♀️

With the grains and pseudo-grains I'm more thinking about winter forage for the velociraptors. Many of those plants are pretty drought tolerant, and if they can reseed themselves I can let the chickens in during the winter and lock them out in the spring so the system can recover...

I need to plant corn, finish the beans, and start on cover crops. Experimenting with pseudo-grains this year. Amaranth, quinoa, sesame and chia are in the ground.

I get that. My obsession with seeds and planting should be in the DSMV.

Not a matter of "hearing," technically, but I'm happy to let you ramble.

Case in point. It was time to plant chia and I could NOT find the seeds. I had them 10 minutes ago! Finally found them, tucked down inside one of the pots I set out to plant the chia in. A logical place, since I intended to plant them. Wasted half an hour searching.

I walked into this room while initially touring the house. There was a grow light in the ceiling fixture and built-in shelves. My growers heart immediately wanted it.

Seed closet.

I did find my apricot seeds, though. They're coming up in the pot marked "currants." 🤣

Yup. Me too. Buy a new one, go to put it away in the "logical" place, and viola! Problem is, I find things when not looking for them and go "Oh, I need to put that away," and I move on. Then I can't remember where I saw it!

I can't find a bunch of my seeds, and it's getting very frustrating. Clary sage, sage, raspberry, wild plum, serviceberry, aronia, currant. I planted clary sage and sage earlier this spring and now can't find the seeds. I have 5 wild plum seeds in the 'fridge, but where is the rest of the...

Planted persimmons for the shelterbelt, a raspberry and two blackberries for me. Beans are well up. No corn yet. If I do lentils again next year I'll wait until the beginning of April. About half of them have died. Lost four tomatoes in last night's storm, but two potatoes are up that...

I once had a population that was pretty cold tolerant, but that wasn't my goal so the seeds got mixed in with the rest when I was finished. I wish now that I had kept them separate. I was testing to see if they would flower earlier, and they never did. Four years in a row they were planted...