It Finally Feels like Spring!
I finally started hardening off tomatoes and peppers this week. Last year I decided to start fewer plants inside, and purchase more at the local greenhouse… but I ended up buying seeds... Read More
Seedlings and More Snow
The smell of young tomato leaves in mid-April is hard to beat. It’s funny how that smell can be so nauseating in September, yet delicious in spring. If the weather patterns had... Read More
Coconut Fiber vs. Peat Moss
It’s that time of year again! 10 weeks until Minnesota’s average last frost. We like to put stuff out earlier than that if the weather permits. I have a lot of plans... Read More
Dehydrated Prize of the Trials
The Prize of the Trials Cherry Tomato is probably my favorite tomato to grow… and to eat. Even our terribly blighted tomato plants have been producing these like crazy this summer. They... Read More
Tomato Blight
If you’ve ever tried your hand at growing heirloom tomatoes … then chances are you’ve run across Early Tomato Blight. Early tomato blight is an infection (caused by the fungus Alternaria solani)... Read More
$5 Bean Teepee
Unfortunately, we didn’t move the old bean and cucumber trellises with us, and I didn’t have the scrap wood (or the ambition) this year to build something new. Menard’s sells 10′ PVC... Read More
Tomatoes and Straw
Yesterday Jessi and I weeded around the tomatoes. The ground is quite dry and compacted. We added some compost on all the tomatoes and brassicas, but I am not too optimistic. A... Read More
Slowly making progress
When we got out to the garden this morning, the guy who had plowed was out there with his tractor tilling for us. The ground is much more workable than it was... Read More
Super Marmande Tomato
Seed Source: Ace Hardware (American Seed Company) Date Planted: April 7, 2007 Marmande is a commune in southwestern France, a known producer of tomatoes. They hold a festival every July to celebrate... Read More
Sabre Ukrainian Tomatoes
Seed Source: Amish Land Seeds Date Planted: March 23, 2007 Amish Land Seeds claims to be the only US Source for this paste tomato! The Sabre Ukrainian tomatoes are very large paste... Read More
Tomesol White Tomato
Seed Source: Amish Land Seeds Date Planted: March 23, 2007 Yes, another white tomato variety… three white tomato varieties, about 58 plants. But we are planting nearly 300 tomatoes, and these are... Read More
World’s Miracle Tomato
Seed Source: Amish Land Seeds Date Planted: March 23, 2007 We chose two paste tomatoes from Amish Land Seeds this year: Sabre Ukrainian and World’s Miracle. Both are from the Ukraine, and... Read More