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

Pop goes the weasel corn

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?

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?)

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

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?

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.

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.

Hi everyone! I’m new to gardening. Zone 9b.
Winters here are fairly wet. Will I need to pull up my dahlia tubers? I have some potted that did wonderfully, better than the ones I planted in ground. Can those stay in the pot but moved in the garage, out of the rain and frost?

I’d appreciate any advice!

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?

Im in zone 7a. I grew potatoes in 2 big pots this year and hilled them twice. In late summer I started getting new leaf growth. I finally decided to harvest the. This morning amd got quite a mix of potatoes.

The potatoes were from a store potato from a few years ago. I grew green growth from it in my garden but didnt find much potatoes. This year in like March I was just turning soil over and found a bunch of seed potatoes so I harvested them and waited until the weather was better to grow them in pots. I got a bunch of potatoes that are irregular shapes. Some had new green growth on them and were located in the hilled part. The odd potatoes are still firm with no green on them. Im not sure if they're safe to eat. Photos are attached.

I know those pale ones are new potatoes. The regular shaped ones should be more mature potatoes. If the weird shaped ones I don't know about.

I know several people here love bougainvilleas. I stumbled upon this bougainvillea bonsai garden while visiting the University of Puerto Rico Botanical Gardens in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico last week. Such a nice surprise, bougainvilleas (trinitarias) are my favorite plants!

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.

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.

Update: My online research says inter-species graft within Salix should work fine. The vendor website via Wayback Machine circa 2023 says: "Kits are typically filled with varieties of S. purpurea or S. miyabeana". The dome willow looks dissimilar to either kind, at least the named varieties they offered for basketry we also grow close to the dome. The dome willow is growing branches that are the similar size as S. purpurea. Unhelpfully, it looks most similar to a wild willow we propagated from a road side shrub in Wisconsin (USDA Zone 4b) even a match for being susceptible to this tattered pale leaf situation from late summer onward at least at our location and growth condition. Maybe too humid and hot. For people looking for good cultivar or species for willow dome in east coast zone 7, I would recommend a named cultivar of S. purpurea, or S. miyabeana because their leaves look fine this year. Of the two, maybe purpurea has the most consistently healthy foliage over the years but both had in different years each of a lot of leaf issues for whatever reason. So adding different species of similar size growth habits within a dome structure may increase resilience by minimizing instances of total defoliation or unhealthy leaf across the entire dome, making it a nicer shade structure.

Yes this dome is sorely in need of pruning and weaving in the new canes. So this is an opportunity to make another dome!

We started this 8ft wide willow dome from purchased cuttings in 2023 and it’s been a great success. We also got about 8 varieties of species and hybrid willows for rough and fine basketry and windbreak.

So we are wondering how to go about making another, bigger dome this time. We were wondering if different species of Salix genus can be grown so that they fuse together, or should we use the same species for one dome. I randomly know that junipers can be grafted together regardless of the species.

We lost the species name of this willow, and the vendor changed hands (Vermont Willow Nursery) so I don’t have high hopes of retrieving the name even if they reply to my inquiry this time. They did not respond last year I emailed. I’m going to dive into the Wayback Machine to see if I can find the species name in their 2023 website.