I am going to put a list of Vegetables seed suppliers here that are from Australia to start with, for my own benefit as much as anyone else's. Folks from elsewhere might want...
Today is Tomato Seed Starting Day! This year I am growing one each of 28 different varieties, mostly new to me. 21 of them are regular size tomatoes and 7 are dwarfs. I'm...
I have this one tomato seedling without a central leader. It just never developed one as if the apex was damaged somehow or just never developed and I've never seen this...
Last Monday morning I was going plant my 8 summer cherries, but they had completely wilted and died literally overnight. Looks like bacterial wilt. The seeds had been started...
A friend gave me a couple new-to-me varieties to try and one was labeled Barred Boar. I Googlefied the name and only came up with Large Barred Boar. I'm a stickler for...
I came across this variety at Baker Creek Seeds, and of course it sounds wonderful in the description...found a lot of conflicting info while looking for reviews online....
Found a brandywine RL plant today that was labeled heirloom and I know it isn't.
Hope it is a red one instead of the usual pink.
Brandywine is always PL except for the hybrid...
This is the 3rd season in a row I’ve tried Malachite Box and what a tease.
It starts out growing well and setting tons of fruit, then once May rolls around and there’s the...
I planted my stash of 23 tomato sets out the garden well prior to the big freeze. They mostly were actually looking pretty good and growing, but you can imagine how they look...
So, the above-linked PDF is a science article that talks about what happens to plants when they have smaller containers. Something of interest for us, however, is how it...
I have a couple of extra Maglia Rosa seedlings that I thought I might try in hanging baskets. From what I've read, it seems to be a pretty drape-y variety and I saw a pretty...
I recieved a couple old seeds of Warren Bees tomato last MMMM, and decided to see if a could get some fresh seeds collected of it. I didn't know what to expect, and wasn't...
Since it's now May and I haven't put a single tomato in the ground yet it seems like the logical time to think about what to grow in 2023. :D I've started a wish list of...
The last 2 years I used a living mulch for the tomato plants to fight the heat wave but I lost too many plants when the grass gets too high and too hot to weed whack.I did...
I had my soil tested and found out I needed 100 lbs of lime per 1000 square feet and 3 lbs of Super Phosphorus per 1000 square feet. It also said my potassium level was high....
The six micros that have been producing for a good while under the lights are getting a bit long in the tooth. I should have started their replacements a while ago to have an...
I thought it would be fun to kind of poll everyone's favorites for different colors, sizes, etc. I started with this because I want to grow a few GWR cherries next year to...
I started my tomato seeds about a month ago. Most seem to be doing okay, though I notice that a fair number have grown to about 1.5 - 2 tall and then they stop branching (if...
The local walmart has a limited supply of tomato plants but I bought 1 that had 2 seedlings in the same container.
Way too early for outdoors this zone,but I wanted to grow...
Scanning veggie seeds on Etsy and I come across an ad for Micro Tom Gold... Hmmm Micro Tom is a red tomato but a bit of research turns up a few incidents of a gold version......
I don’t, not anymore. I removed from the raised beds 4 tomato plants today that were sickly and behind their peers. If the plants look robust, but otherwise haven’t really...
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