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Interesting. All the pictures I found showed a long thin pod for chickpea.

The cold tolerance test with dry beans is officially a success. I planted in February and the plants are ripening now, at the start of summer heat. They're stunted by the cold, of course, but still producing. Next year will be better. Squash bugs on the pumpkins. Any survivors will be harvested...

Rather like the pet food ads. "Tastes great!" According to who? "What do you do for work?" "I'm a product taster." SMH

Wherever you live, it might be worth it to succession sow your squash, so when one plant dies or goes to seed you have another to replace it.

I just used zip ties initially, but the wind kept breaking them and ripping the panels off. I decided to do as @peteyfoozer suggested and put two more cattle panels over the top for security.

Oh, and it tasted so good!

Almost anything is disgusting when cooked wrong. Let me guess--slimy, stringy, and tasteless with a hint of bitter.

Most of the history "facts."

Problem is it's only one rock. Priority paralysis sets in pretty quickly.

Mixed herbs and flowers. Whatever your parents will use. Design it to keep weeds to a minimum by using perennial groundcovers that will still let the plants come up in the spring, or use foundation plants that don't die back to the root. You want minimum work, maximum production. Nasturtiums...

Almost two years now. 10 year warranty on the panels. You may have accidentally gotten the pvc panels. No warranty on those, and they deteriorate quickly. I have used the pvc panels only where they won't be in the sun.

Just found two of these...in my watermelon patch. Opportunistic jerks. Look closely. I can't remember what it's called. Looks like a thorned watermelon, but it's in the nightshade family. Flowers look like a tomato flower. You see one of these, do not attempt to touch it without heavy gloves!

Funny how you need to have muscles in order to get muscles. About half the deep box in front of the greenhouse is full. I filled it with woodchips last fall and am now topping it off with compost. This will be my kitchen herb garden. Perennials oregano, marjoram, thyme, sage, parsley. I'll let...

Never tried that, but we used an awful lot of rope.

Is that the bass "Hey, lady lady!" I hear by the neighbor's pond? 😁

Nope. Most grocery store beets have male stetility (no pollen)

Not sure yet how that will work. I'm thinking of potato towers. On a related note, the Kenebec are sad but blooming, while the grocery store potatoes are all but dead

I remember those days! Packing cement block, pvc and 2x4's in a Ford Ecort! Later I used my Dad's SUV and drove home from Lowes all hunched down because there was stuff sticking out the drivers side window as well as in the middle. Good thing the trip was short.

Green beans I planted last week are up. I'm seeing a few beets. Those beets that survive will be encouraged to go to seed for my first year of adaptation. Cantaloupe/honeydew/whatever melons are up--they all washed downhill during the rain and ended up in a big clump. That's ok, I'll maybe get...

100+ degrees for weeks on end, no water from May to September, sometimes October, and the plants still thrived. Something to consider. We water far more than most plants actually need.