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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 Italian [...] 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 huge range [...] 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 [...] Such a pretty plant. It is early in the year, so most of these are under a foot tall. They will be just as pretty in the fall, only by then they will be over ten feet tall. Tasty and lovely leaves. I love this plant. This plant dies each year, but comes up from [...] |
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