Marisa of the blog Food in Jars posted today that I was the winner of her contest giving away a nice packet of Survival Seeds from HomeTownSeeds.com! Hooray! And what luck, because I was chosen from among 230+ commentors on her post! I am very excited to have won a hermetically sealed packet of heirloom [...]
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21 Jun
Green Tomatoes. Beefmaster, Big Mama and Cabin
Here are a few pictures of my developing tomatoes. Unfortunately, two of the three featured in this post are hybrids. I’m going to actively move away from the hybrids in the next few years. That’s the main reason why I am growing so many different tomatoes (18 types this year)… I want to find an [...]
17 May
May 2009 Backyard Garden
Gardening by numbers Bed 1 is my wife’s herb garden with an 8 foot row of cucumbers along the fence. Just seeded this weekend. Bed 2 has strawberries, three kinds of peppers and a couple eggplants I got at the farmer’s market this weekend. Bed 3 is seeded with sweet corn on the left [...]
28 Mar
Free Heirloom Open Pollinated Tomato Seeds from WinterSown.Org
The awesome folks over at WinterSown.org will send you free tomato seeds in exchange for your Self Addressed Stamped Envelope. This is possibly a USA-only offer, I’m not sure. They strongly encourage you to learn the technique of Winter Sowing your seeds. If you give them a small donation, you’ll get about twice as many [...]
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