Back Story As I began to wade (no, actually I probably dove right off the deep end) deeper and deeper into the world of heirloom tomatoes I checked out the book “Epic Tomatoes” from the library. Through its pages, I became enchanted with the unique attributes of heirlooms and the wide variety of color choices, […]
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With all this talk of garden planning, we thought it’d be helpful to put all our favorite gardening resource in one place. This first article will cover our favorite seed sources. In a future article, we’ll compile all the other gardening resources from our favorite books and blogs to where to seed starting supplies. This
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For many in our area, growing peppers can be a great source of frustration. It takes forever for them to ripen, if they even ripen at all. And, even if you do get a few peppers to ripen, it’s just that: a few. Last year we grew peppers in the garden, but we grew even
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Apparently, there aren’t a lot of SEO friendly ways to say here are the crop successes and failures from 2022. So anyway, this post needs a better title, but I bring you lessons, successes and failures from our 2022 gardening season. Failures I guess I’ll start with the failures to get them out of the
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Selecting the Top tomatoes of 2022 The 2022 garden season came to an prolonged yet abrupt end at the beginning of November. We went straight from no sign of freezing to inches of snow in the first few days of the month. The tomatoes we harvested in mid October, in anticipation of a normal first
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What to do with all this zucchini? The other night, we were at Bible study and I mentioned something about planting 8 zucchini plants. To that, one of our friends responded, “boy, that’s enough zucchini for 10 families”. While I don’t know if it would actually feed that many families, I do know I have
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Earlier this Spring when I was getting ready to plant my garden, I had a plan for where in my yard I would put the garden. I also had a plan for where I would put each type of plant. But, as I watched my yard throughout the day, I realized much of my garden
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