My favorite heirloom bean: Rattlesnake.
Best part about rattlesnakes is that the pattern on the bean differentiates it from the stem. Most beans blend with the stem color which makes them harder to find. Although, I still miss finding them even with the pattern!
My cilantro grew nice and big earlier in the summer. I came out one night to cut it for dinner only to find that something had been nibbling on it. I'm going with rabbits here since deer aren't usually in the residential areas. Both plants were nibbled back over two days. When the cilantro grew back it started to bolt. I left them since I think the flowers are rather beautiful. The flowers have larger white edge petals. The centers are trimmed with pink. They work as cut flowers but smell like cilantro.
So far I've lost 4 different plants to gophers. The gophers have breached the chicken wire under the plot. Plants lost: 1 tomato, 1 nasturtium 1 cilantro, 1 cucumber.
I'm taking bets on what plant will disappear next!
The tunnels are collapsing but I don't have a clear entry point to work with. I'm curious if planting poisonous plants like poison hemlock or oleander around a garden would do anything to deter gophers. When I first started my garden plot, there was a large poison hemlock plant in the center and no gopher trouble. The hemlock died and was taken out. Now I have gophers... Of course, I may just have the five star plant buffet or the gophers took advantage of our wet spring to go forth and multiply. Who knows? :)
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