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They look yummy. I mean the chips. LOL

w........she ran them through the processor then boiled/blanched them for about 2 minutes. Rinsed them completely, and dried them between paper towels before frying.

Those look like I see on my beans where leaves are being eaten, thought they were BAD??? What do their larvae look like? I'm going to be spraying soapy mix tomorrow on their larvae if no one stops me.

Stop. Put the spray away. Go to Google and look up ladybug larvae. They're very distinctive and one of the most useful insects for gardeners. In fact, there is a shortage of them lately. Don't spray them.

Bean beetles attack the plants as adults, not larvae. Look them up, too. There are a couple of varieties.

See those little black specks on your corn tassles? They're aphids. They probably aren't doing a lot of harm, but the ladybugs are eating them.

Farming is an input in/profit out business more than how much the crop is expected to be worth on the open market for the most part.

On no-irrigation land, if corn isn't demanding a high enough price a lot of farmers will grow drought tolerant wheat (or another area specific crop) because the risk and cost of additional inputs for water/nutrients/weed control/etc aren't worth it...that hasn't been a huge issue lately with high corn prices (which are expected to decline slightly this year, btw). This is just a single example.

Also, it could be being grown as a cover crop, if it is sudangrass or sudangrass-sorghum hybrid. No-till people use it.

Nope, its a cluster of eggs. And we don't have any lizards here. Someone on the Allium forum said it was probably onion maggot eggs.

Not eggs of onion maggot. Try again.

All
Tks for taking the time and posting your tags

Hidesert, great link, just what I needed

yukkuri, never thought about growing Favas, going to go give it a try, after I locate some seeds.

McKenzie. This is my second year planting garlic in Early Sept, had a huge harvest this year. First attempt at Bush Beans, must say they are growing at lighting speed, have not had any temps over 100 for several weeks now. looks like we will most diffently have a fall crop of bush beans.
This was my first experience and posting for this site, what a wealth of knowledge and information, glad I found it.
Cheers
Donald

I'm guessing the favas can be planted late fall in zone 8, and grow slowly through through the winter for an early spring crop.

John Jeavons & the biointensive folks are big on fava - reason being they are great compost crops. You get nitrogen fixation, and they also create a fair amount of root & stalk that adds biomass to your soil.

Thanks Wayne!

generally speaking, sweet potatoes like water. Slips will thrive for a long time in a gallon jug of water as long as they have warmth and sunlight.

They will like a thorough soaking every once in a while. But waterlogged soils, not good. Drip irrigation is good.

SP vines are quick to wilt, but quick to recover.

Sprouts are far more productive indoors. After much selection, I grow sunflower shoots in compost trays in a sunny window sill, and broccoli and fenugreek in jars (no medium). Shoots take two weeks, sprouts one week. My biggest problem is keeping the bag of compost in the garage unfrozen, since I use fresh compost for every new batch of shoots.

I doubt that root crops can be grown successfully indoors. You need more than one foot of soil. Root crops can be eaten through the winter, but they need to be in the root cellar, which in my case is totes full of moist sand in the garage. Carrots and parsnips dug up during a thaw are the best tasting root crops, better than anything you can grow indoors.

I tried posting on the growing under lights forum, but it's been kind of dead over there.

Well I didn't necessarily mean posting, just reading all the huge amount of info that is already there about gardening under lights.

But yes it is slow right now on that forum as it is out of season. It will pick up there after outdoor harvest time in mid to late October.

Dave

To me growing beans and peas as dry goods, is just pointless, economically speaking. Unless they are RAE and exotic. Alot of dry beans are sold for about $1/lb-$2/lb.

My dry beans are so much better than store-bought that I can't hardly eat them anymore.

I have a community garden where I grow my potatoes and leaving them in the ground is not an option. I dug mine a couple of weeks ago and they were in milk crates until I could get them stored correctly. I thought the milk crate allowed for good air circulation. I was going to try the newspaper layering technique but before I could get that done, about 10 potatoes rotted out of about 100 lbs. Right now, I washed most of the potatoes and have them drying on a screen on saw horses in my garage. I am going to let them dry well for a couple of days and then go through them again to check for any with signs of rot. We will see how this works.

So what do you do with the potatoes that have been next to the rotten potatoes and have that nasty rotten potato liquid on them?

"So what do you do with the potatoes that have been next to the rotten potatoes and have that nasty rotten potato liquid on them?"

Wash them off and use first.

Definitely bottle gourd.
I dont think that this gourd can cross with musk melon or squash. Actually its seeds are WAY different from musk melon seeds and squash too.

I think the lady just got her seeds mixed up. Gourds and muskmelons can't cross pollinate because they are from two different genuses.

Rodney

If you have/had other squash growing nearby, then the seed from this one could POSSIBLY be off as well.

It could a spaghetti squash.

I grow a "Small Wonder" Spaghetti squash that is smaller in size and looks a lot like that. I see its starting to change to a yellow color too.

Maybe your seed package had a few foreigners in it. :)

To me, some edamame actually tastes better when ripe. I try to pick at the first sign of pods yellowing, or when the first leaves in the row begin to yellow... particularly if the variety has seeds with colors other than green, since later harvest will bring out those colors.

But if they get riper than that, then as long as the pods are not yet brown, they are still usable. The beans from the yellow pods will not be as sweet, but you can use them like butterbean limas.

Don't base your decision solely on the pod color. Open a couple of pods. The pods should be filled out and the seeds should be green and tender.

FWIW, my pods are not filled out yet.

Jim

Garden huckleberry is a Solanum species,.

See this page -- has an image for garden huckleberry
http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/content/garden-huckleberry.htm

To my eye, the leaves are different
- garden huckleberry rounded or blunt at tips; lots more images if you do a web image search
- Leaves in image from OP are pointed.

As said earlier, don't eat until 100 percent certain.

Here is a link that might be useful: search for garden huckleberry

eastern black nightshade.

Though it contains poisons, they're not easily taken up by the digestive system and most people can handle them without danger...that said, they're not good eats.