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Soft boiled eggs if I can get out there quick enough.

If it keeps simmering at this rate, I'll be able to leave the stove off and get pre-cooked chicken from the coop...

I can't find the tomatoes, but it's technically not because of weeds. I overseeded with flax. The flax did nothing to deter squash bugs. A few years ago I had one zucchini that didn’t have a single squash bug all season, surrounded by seeding lettuce. Maybe coincidence. I was hoping the flax...

Grapes at my old house thrived for over 40 years with a ph over 8. I wouldn't worry too much about PH.

I've used both those processes, and they rely on horizontal running, which you don't really have with an arch. I guess I'll just have to experiment.

Speaking of grape vines, does anyone have an ides which training process might be best for a grape vine trained on a cattle panel trellis?

Nitrogen would hit the old leaves, new leaves would look healthy. This might be sulfur. Try epsom salt.

I'd call it a miracle. Not just that they were dumped, but that they were dumped in a place you regularly go, to be cared for by someone who appreciates them.

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!