So. Question for the group here. I planted something as a seedling, transplanted it to the garden, and it’s growing like crazy. But I have no idea what it is. It’s a bean of some sort. Thoughts?
If you download the app PlantSnapp (I think it's for iOS only), you can take a picture of just about any plant and it will match it up and tell you what it is. We've used it in the yard for a lot of the bushes we have no idea what they are. We've figured out we have a bunch of Mock Orange bushes, a Quince tree, an Elderberry bush, and quite a full Magnolia bushes. It's really a handy app and I'm sure they make an equivalence for android.
Figured it out. It’s canola. WTF. I’m thinking that the bean seeds I planted were mislabeled. Needless to say I have no use for canola in my garden. Might just rip that out and get ready to plant a fall crop of peas or something.
$40 a year subscription was a bit much. Tried the 1 week free trial, it came back as “mustard”, and had a 50% hit on other plants I tried. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Damn, I think it's actually just PlantSnap, with 1 P, not PlantSnapp with 2 P's. The one I use doesn't cost anything and is more based around education. Sorry bout that.
No worries! I'll go look for one P as an option. Not surprised that some popular, cheap apps are cloned and expensive.
Garden is doing well, my Brandywine tomato plants are sort of giving up in this heat. They put out a bumper crop of fruit, I have no complaints. Probably won't pull them yet, some of them are trying to put out new leaves. Daily harvest is about like the picture below.
Are you sure that you have no use for it? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...-busslinger-brooke-patton-ward-toma-1.5651435 Canola is related to mustard (both are in the brassica family), so that's why the crazy expensive app came back with that result.
Japanese Black Trifele Tomato. Maybe the best heirloom tomato I’ve grown. Now, I haven’t grown all THAT many heirloom tomatoes, but JBT has been productive, no diseases or issues, baseball-sized and pear-shaped fruit with a deeper, more classic, slightly smoky, tomato flavor.
Surely a Brassica of some variety. Yellow flowers, those distinct pods, etc. As @billy_2005 pointed out, Canola, or Rapeseed, is a Brassica. I didn't know this until a friend recently sent me a picture of an entire field of Canola growing in Taiwan. I thought it was cabbage. Canada is the world's top producer of Rapeseed. I wonder if a seed hadn't wandered over from a nearby farm, @Nettdata.
I intentionally planted 5 plants as seedlings this spring and transplanted them from my laundry room. Not a drift-in. Even called a friend of the family who was the president of the Ontario Bean Growers for years. Yep, canola. It was some sort of mixup with my seed supplier.
4 different online suppliers. I haven’t dug into the seeds yet to check. I’m pretty sure I planted what were labelled green beans.
This tracks with what I was mentioning to bewildered up thread....seed packets can hold some surprises! I have personally seen three strains of jalapeno in one seed envelope. You don't know until it grows.
One of my sister's friends posted a picture of her garden with the seed pack, with the sprouts and then with the actual produce. She planted what was labeled as cantaloupe and she grew cucumbers. I think it's pretty common.
Garden is still growing like a motherfucker. I tried to fab up the automatic drip watering part for the far box, and failed. Nowhere near enough pressure in the line for the ends I had exposed at the plants... not even halfway down the line not a drop was coming out. I'm going to have to put in some spray nozzles at each of the drops I have rather than just leave it as open tube. The fucked up part was, as soon as I saw the results, I knew that's what was going to happen... I _KNEW_ this, but it just totally didn't register when I was making it up in the shop. Fucking hell, getting old sucks. At least it won't be too hard to attach the pinhole sprayers, and they will be more than enough to get the pressure up. In other news, there's a rodent that now seems to like squash. 3rd year letting the squash just grow on the ground, no problems. Tonight, something has been chowing down. Time to step up the rodent extermination efforts me thinks. Mind you, based on how little was actually eaten, maybe it tried it, realized it didn't like it, and will now leave the others alone... we'll see. Here's hoping.
Seems like nearly every single rain storm just passes us by without giving us a little water this Summer. So at this point I’m in salvage mode, we’ll get what we can out of it and then what’s left will go one the compost pile. We’re on a well so I’m hyper-vigilaint about water usage when things get this way, and can’t run a hose to the garden beds. The two creeks in our property aren’t as dry as I’ve seen them in years past, but we have August to go through still. The good news is that the raspberries and blackberries have been spreading throughout our property in their own. So we’ve been getting more fruit from them, although the berries are a little dry. The blueberry bushes still produced well.