ethin's doings

[steev]

I once had jicama in Honduras; they were small NMT 3" diameter and far sweeter and more flavorful than any other I've eaten; don't know whether it was a varietal thing, an immaturity thing, or a newly-dug thing the way fresh-dug spuds are sweeter.

[richardw]

#one photo looks like Haskap or something from the honeysuckle family at least

[ethin]

Some garden pics.

Shelling pea landrace/flowers/grain x1, Shelling peas with grains x3, soup/snow peas with sticks/flowers/grain x2, sunroots.


Lentils/tepary+crenshaw/watermelon+chickpeas, lettuce/garlic+carrots, onions+chickpeas/watermelons+ sParsnip/F2 bean hybrid grow outs.

Brassicas+dry bean landrace+Brassicas, peanuts+dry bean landrace+tatos, tatos/garlic+dry bean landrace+tatos/garlic, cumbers, squash.


Corn + dry poll beans + cowpeas x2, Corn + dry poll beans + lima beans x2, Corn + dry poll beans + dry bean landrace x6, Mixed snap beans, honeydew.


Cabbage, parsnip, carrot seed crop.


Nursery pots.


Seed grown iris and peonies.

Beautiful blue Utah sky.

There where butterflies swarming up one of the local canyons, caught the very tail end of it.

[ethin]

Had an emergency apricot harvesting party today, one of our two apricot trees is 1/5 smaller. Got 2 bushel of usable fruit and about a half bushel of compost (we could use some chickens).

[ethin]

First melon of the year. To the best of my knowledge Joseph this is one of yours. The thing practically ripened over night. 1lb 6oz.

[ethin]

Weedy pic time.


Had some germination/bug problems with one of the new varieties of pole beans I tried this year.
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I sure the two viney mounds in the below image in my "bush" beans are hybrids, there are also 3 similar plant growing in another bush bean planting.



Some micro ants I found in a flowerbed.



One of my cats has been finding hornworm looking caterpillar in the dry beans. They are the same size, shape, and color as a hornworm but the markings are different, they have 5 strips of eye spots (yellow patches outlined in black on the top and bottom with a red spot in the middle) running from head to tail. Sorry no pics, didn't have my camera with me and the cat made short work of the critters.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

Aug 28, 2016 13:20:44 GMT -5 ethin said:

Weedy pic time.

Good job on growing so much biomass. That's great fertility for next growing season!

I planted three of ethin's hybrid beans this growing season. The variety descended from Yellow Wax produced all bush beans for me. Some were green podded. Some were yellow podded. The beans on some plants have already dried down. Wow! That is an early bean. Here's what the earliest of them looked like.

ethin: Any ideas from this about who's the daddy of the cross?

[shoshannah]

ethin, I admire your seed saving ability.  Your garden has so much variety.  You are inspiring me to check more of our flowers for seed.

We're still working on more flowers planted to attract more pollinators.  Every year gets better.

Joseph Lofthouse, Are those beans used for fresh green beans or for soup?  I've only grown reg green beans and romanos.

The colors and patterns of beans are so striking I want to give into my compulsion and have them all.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

Aug 28, 2016 16:26:49 GMT -5 shoshannah said:

Joseph Lofthouse, Are those beans used for fresh green beans or for soup?

I'm growing them as soup beans... But since they came out of a snap-bean background, I'm wishing that I would have tasted them during the green bean stage. I bet that at least some of them would make great snap beans. They were a mix of yellow-podded and green-podded beans.

[ethin]

Aug 28, 2016 15:26:04 GMT -5 Joseph Lofthouse said:

Aug 28, 2016 13:20:44 GMT -5 ethin said:

Weedy pic time.

Good job on growing so much biomass. That's great fertility for next growing season!

I planted three of ethin 's hybrid beans this growing season. The variety descended from Yellow Wax produced all bush beans for me. Some were green podded. Some were yellow podded. The beans on some plants have already dried down. Wow! That is an early bean. Here's what the earliest of them looked like.

ethin : Any ideas from this about who's the daddy of the cross?

Not a clue Joseph. Here's what I've got so far from the same grow out. My grow out had some bush and varying degrees of viney-ness.

[ethin]

Well after the last post about the beans I got thinking. There are 2 traits that stand out to me, the two tone thing which came from the mother, and stripes. Back in 2014 when the cross happened the only striped beans I had where pintos and cranberries, so I was guessing the father could have been one of those. I was thinking about that while I was pick some more dry pods from that grow-out, when I shelled them I found two new types of seeds, a white and yellow striped one, and a bean that looks just like a pinto.

So Joseph I'm going to say that the father of the yellow wax cross was a pinto. Which means that all of last years hybrids had pinto in them.

[ethin]

Picked some dry pole beans from the corn patch and found two more black/purple pintos. Guess I need to stop picking as they dry down and wait to harvest as specimens so I don't get the seed mixed up. Also made some blackberry jam.

[ethin]

Aug 28, 2016 16:26:49 GMT -5 shoshannah said:

ethin , I admire your seed saving ability.  Your garden has so much variety.  You are inspiring me to check more of our flowers for seed.

We're still working on more flowers planted to attract more pollinators.  Every year gets better.

Thanks shoshannah. Just so you don't get the wrong idea 90% of those flowers planted themselves, I just neglected to pull them all.

[shoshannah]

Butterfly migrations are really cool.  We got caught up in one in Quartzsite, Az.  Different butterflies than yours.



They just kept coming for several days right by our camp.  Wished I had a telephoto lens.  Wouldn't let me get close.

[philagardener]

That's a Lady, shoshannah . Either an American Lady or a Painted Lady (difficult to tell from this angle; a key fieldmark is the size of the eyspots on the outside face of the wing.)

www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/vanessa-virginiensis
www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Vanessa-cardui