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Showing posts with label Heirloom Seeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heirloom Seeds. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Sprouting Out Tomato Seeds For This Year's Garden

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There are lots of seeds still in their little damp paper towels getting sprouted. Yesterday I took the varieties that have sprouted a...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Moving My Tomato Seeds Into Peat Pots

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The little sprouts are ready to go into the seed starting medium now! :-)
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Starting My Tomato Seeds Indoors

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It is that time of year again!  Once more I am using "Byron B's Weak Tea" method. I did this last year and nearly every se...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Planning This Years Garden & Reviewing Last Year's

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In which I talk about the things I learned last year: what worked (Deer Netting!!!!) and what didn't (Oddly colored Heirloom Tomatoe...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The Odd and Wild "Texas Persimmons" Are Ripening Now

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The Wild Texas Persimmons are ripe! These turn black when ripe, and unlike orange persimmons, they don't need a frost.  The trees are...
Monday, July 14, 2014

SUCCESS!!!! Beautiful Heirloom Tomatoes

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I set a goal last Winter, in the cold, here at home looking after my husband in his slow and steady recovery from a life-saving surgery,...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

O Tomato! Beautiful Heirloom Varieties I Am Gathering Now!

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Tomatoes here are finally ripening and I am gathering about a peck or more each day.    I lost track of what tomatoes I have where si...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Tomato Vines Loaded with Green Fruit: Heirloom "Costoluto Genovese"

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I have only picked a couple of ripe tomatoes so far, but the vines are all full of green fruit. This variety I grew from seed that I ...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Mid June Garden Update: Chard, Squash, Onion Braids, and Waiting For Tomatoes!

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I think the rumors that this is finally an El Nino year may prove true. God has been watering my garden every week for about a month no...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Raising Tomatoes, Part 4: Folklore: Planting Before Good Friday & Rain on Easter

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This year, I set a goal of learning how to raise tomatoes successfully. I am part way there, as I raised about a hundred plants from see...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Growing Tomatoes From Seed, Part Three: Getting Their Second Leaves - and Their First Fertilizer

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This year, I set myself the task of learning how to grow tomatoes, from seed to harvest. I've never had any luck with them, but oth...
Sunday, February 23, 2014

Starting Tomato Plants From Seed, Step 2: Moving Sprouts From Paper into Pots

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 This is Part 2. The first post ( click here to read it ) explains how to start the seed using weak tea, paper towels and baggies. This p...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

It's Time! Here's One Way To Start Tomato Seeds

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My "determined to learn" project this year is How to Grow Tomatoes. I have not had any luck with tomatoes - poor yields (if any...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Linocuts and Letterpress: Printing Seed Packets and Cottage Food Labels

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I've been having fun this year in the print shop, turning out seed packets for saving seeds in.  The Pecan Corner Press is a hobby, a...
Friday, April 20, 2012

Roses & Pecan Trees are Blooming!

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 These are from the only rosebush that survived the drought, but oh aren't they gorgeous! Paul commented that they "are almos...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

On Fact and Fallacy, and How They Can Change: "Ten Thousand Years Ago, A Lemming"

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 The most awesome thing about this story: " Scientists in Russia have grown plants from fruit stored away in permafrost by squirrels ov...
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Healing the Burns: References For Wildfire & Drought Recovery Plantings

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Every landscape contains some plants that will not grow unless they have gone through fire . These seed lay dormant, awaiting their call to ...