Dealing with Spring Rain in Your Vegetable Garden
How many times have you read that on a plant tag you are considering buying? The most popular tune of organic gardening is “add more compost”.
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Heirloom Tomatoes and Disease Resistance
Unlike hybrid tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes have not been tested and bred for disease resistance. For this reason, they may or may not have some natural resistance to various diseases. However, it is beneficial to remember that these unique varieties would not have been saved if they were not both productive and tasty. You can give …
Seed of Tomorrow
There are many reasons to make open pollinated [“heirloom variety”] seeds an integral part of your gardening experience and food storage. They are simply, the “Seed of Tomorrow”. If seeds are collected from F1 hybrids, the plants grown from those seeds will generally not have the characteristics that you desired in the parent plant. Open …