Daniel's Pacific NW Garden

 These are seeds from a bean cultivar that I've been saving for two decades.  Some times I miss a year and have to use an older batch.  ...

 Lots of food and collecting seeds.  Shirley poppy seed heads are becoming light brown, so I cut them off and place them, pod down, into gla...

I planted some more vegetable seeds.  Something seems to be eating a lot of my planted bean seeds.  Several rows vanished completely.  Somet...

I planted some bean seeds, Landreth Bush Bean, shown.  These are some of my newest seeds, actually packaged for this year.  I'll soak th...

Late beans.  8.23.15 Onion Wells.  8.23.15 Beans growing ok. Added well aged chicken compost to barrels, and more of the EWO scal...

Another order, seedsavers.org .  Bean, Dragon's Tongue PKT Bean, Pencil Pod Golden Wax PKT Pepper, Hot Portugal PKT ...

      Today's Harvest I was happy with today's harvest.  A zucchini, a cucumber, a nice batch of tomatoes, pole beans, and the f...

 Today was too hot to do anything.  Plus I felt sick.  But I did plant the beans I started 2 weeks ago.  These are Ning's Chinese pole...

This is the plan for the kitchen garden for next year.  I used a high-tech method called "writing on an old mailing envelope using a pe...

Collected more seeds today. Saved them in regular postal envelopes. My seed box is a small wooden file box that I bought at a yard sale, g...

These are the beans I planted in tubs April 14 , so roughly 90 days from seed to bean. There are lots more beans on the plants, ready ...

The containerized beans are growing great, and now have their first flowers. I guess I didn't start them too early. Ning set up this...

The yellow wax bush beans that I planted a 2 weeks ago . There appears to be some slug damage, so I added Worry Free organic slug bait. ...

The strawberries are doing great! I thought everbearing types might give one or two strawberries a month, but these are really productive, ...

I pulled the multiplier onions ("yellow potato onion") and garlic from a small bed south of the house. This bed got out of contro...

These beans are growing like crazy! They are blooming great! These are an Italian pole bean. The container is a plastic basket, with hole...

Late summer planting of Roma bush beans. These are very good stir-fried with mushrooms, garlic, and peanuts, along with some stir fry noodle...