Green Bean

Yes, it snowed last night!  Quite unexpected, but nothing was bothered by it.  And, the rhubarb has just put its first leaves up right through it.  I love rhubarb.  It is rather sour, but cooked with sugar is just the right tartness for pancake or ice cream topping.  And cake!  My grandmother would make plain…

Planted green beans  today.  These are seeds from last year’s bounty that I dried and saved.  I did a sprout test and they did 80% ok.  Beans are critical in a long-storage plan and they have many vitamins and minerals.  And, so easy to cook.  Problem is the arrival of the Colorado bean beetle.  I…

What a rainy week.  Good for the garden and getting things growing, but miserable to do anything outside.

Just noticed some random garlics that I failed to dig up last year. When the whole bulb is left in the ground like these, they produce tightly-bunched tiny bulbs. They are hard to peal and should not be planted as next year’s seeds. They are putting up scapes already. Scapes  are long, curled spikes with…