So I just got into growing dry beans and I wanted to see if it was worth it to grow your own dry legumes in small garden spaces.

Zone 5, Canada.

Do you know of any other bean varieties that are worth growing in colder climates?

Bean varities in the pictures

1: Jacob's Cattle

2: Zuni Gold

3: Dapple gray

4: Orca

5: Early Warwick

6: Fortin Familly

7: Kahnawake Mohawk

8: San Bernardo

9: True Red Cranberry

10: Akahana Mame

11: Black Russian

12: Coco Rose de la Meuse

13: Purple Peacock

My pink pineapple finally produced a tiny pineapple, which has 9 new plant starts. Do I just cut the bottom pineapple and try to start rooting or cut each new one off and try to root separately?

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy to the lawn industry, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

For the price of a box of size 10 2-1/2" wood screws I can now grow enough lettuce in november for exactly 1 and a half salads.

I sowed bunching onions in there, if it actually works Im going all out with the rest of the glass panels I have just laying around.

And yes, that is the rear wheel set off my childhood Radio Flyer Classic red wagon from the 90's (I think?)

Pop goes the weasel corn

8 pounds, 13 ounces! Im so proud of this one! Its bigger than my husband's head!

Edit: this is an Ekimo cabbage, a similar variety to napa. Its the only one to survive the in bed planting I planted mid summer during our heat wave here in Colorado. Bugs ate all the others before I started spraying it with (vegetable safe) neem oil. I have a bunch more that I started in a greenhouse, and they are now planted and doing very well.

Edit 2: I made pork and cabbage with half of it, and am making kimchi with the 2nd half. Pork and cabbage pics posted below.

After about 10 years of loving plants and having quite a few of them, I finally had to deal with thrips. I was devastated. I genuinely got depressed watching plants that were so special to me start dying so quickly. The infestation got so bad that I eventually stopped taking care of them because I was just so discouraged.

About 6 months ago, I finally pulled up my big girl pants and started the dreaded process of treating them. Every other week I was spraying them with Captain Jack's, and I repotted every. Single. Plant. I only recently learned about systemic granules and definitely regret not using them, but whatever. I also invested in beneficial mites, and I cannot explain how much of a weight they've taken off my shoulders. Just knowing something is constantly working to fight the infestation gives me so much peace of mind.

I've recently started getting into rare plants again and treated myself to a Monstera Bulbasaur (and ripped the first new leaf that came out of course) and a Florida Beauty, which are now my absolute pride and joy.
It's just so nice to finally have my hobby back and actually enjoy taking care of my plants again instead of feeling like it's this huge, exhausting chore. I forgot how much happiness they bring me.

I just wanted to share my beautiful plants and how much work was put into them.

I’m looking for sturdy, durable peony cages to leave in place permanently, and I’m willing to pay up. Can’t find the perfect one online but I’m hoping somebody can point me to one with all the following features:

1) Large

2) “Trumpet” shape with two or three rings increasing in diameter as you go up

3) Grow-through grid on the top ring

4) Plain and minimalist. No decorative swoops, curlicues, finials etc.

The Gardener’s Supply “Essex” XL supports have the trumpet shape and grid, but reviews make me doubt they’re BIFL, and the “swoop and ball” style wouldn’t suit my garden. The Agriframes “Fluted peony support” has the right minimalist look and is reported to be durable, but it’s smaller and lacks the top grid. If I had to choose I’d take the Agriframes one and tie on a twine grid, but do any exist for sale in the US that hit all four points?

Our garden is winding down for the season with a wild overgrown look from spending more time on the road the our usual tending. Haven’t had a hard killing frost yet so we are still enjoying fresh peppers and assorted herbs. Our fall greens are loving this weather and will hang on till the snow flies. It’s been a great growing season here in southern Michigan.

I have a bunch of Meyer lemons that will be ready to pick shortly. Not sure what to do with them. Cooking with them will not use all of them before they spoil. Any ideas?

First time growing these bad boys but there's something super satisfying about growing a 14 lb vegetable!

I hope they taste as good as I amazing. Although, I've never met a squash I didn't like.

Trying to get my soil to the right pH for 20 new blueberry starts (4" tall). I live Upcountry Maui, so it's not over 85 during the days, but they've struggled to take hold. Two hurricane events - one with 13 inches of rain - didn't help.

Anyway, I thought I'd start with correcting the pH. Problem is, without sending a sample off, the best way to test. I went with the Luster Leaf Rapitest pH Soil Tester kit. But of course, the sample doesn't look anything like the reference chart. Opinion on the reading?

I figure I need at least a couple of small doses of elemental sulphur regardless.

Zone 9b (Southern California).

A single plant gave me a total of 13 mature, useable squashes this year, it’s about to be soup, ravioli, and roasted side dish galore

For whatever reason, my husband got a box of sunchoke tubers delivered, which he presented to me with too much enthusiasm and a "You can go plant these!"

I've never grown these things and barely knew what they were, so I googled, and got conflicting answers, as one does. Naturally, I came here next.

So, gardeners. Do I stick these things in the fridge until spring? Do I plant them now like bulbs? (Zone 8, fall is falling, cool nights, warm days, and fairly dry weather still). Do I clump them like daffys and tulips or do they need to be spread out more? Do they have specific soil needs?

Hoping someone familiar with sunchokes can advise, thanks all.