Toolmaking Art

Here are the tomato varieties that I will be trying from seed gathered at the Tomato Festival!
#1 Tipsy and #2 Green Giant x Yellow Submarine F1

#3 Dice’s  Mystery Black

#4 Jaune Flamme a wonderful French heirloom tomato

#5 Sungold

#6 Purple Haze F1

#7 OSU Blue

#8 Paul Robeson

#9 Tennessee Green

#10 Morovsky Div

#11 Golden Gem

#12 Redfield Beauty

#13 Tony’s [...]

This weekend, I traveled to Washington on the Brazos to see the South East Texas Tomato Festival!
The bridge was out, so we had to take a detour, but it was all worth it. The folk there are testing, and comparing heirloom and a bit more recent varieties of tomatoes.
They had a [...]

Right now my lettuce is at a turning point.

This one is beginning to produce seed.  The one below is ready to eat.

If I remove all the mature leaves, it will grow more, and the pruning will prevent it from going to seed at least until it gets a little bit warmer.

Harvesting the whole plant makes [...]

I prefer to avoid pesticides, at times however I want crops and plants I love are being destroyed. One of the safer pesticides to use is soap.
Additionally I would rather add potassium to my crops, than sodium.    Most soap these days is made from Sodium Hydroxide, it is cheaper and makes a harder [...]

Here is my giant dibbler.  Made from a pine 4×4.

The cross bar is made from ash.  The point has been shaped into a triangle.

This tool is pretty useful, it has even been borrowed by several people and returned damaged.  It still works fine.  You stick the point where you want to plant a small tree [...]