Yes, we always do that. Where I live we get frosts most months of the year so we have to.
Ha! In New England we're lucky if we get three months of tomatoes... The grocery ones taste nasty, I won't ever go back to those. Maybe yours are better since they don't travel as far. Tomatoes here are...
Has anyone grown keeping tomatoes? They're like keeping apples, you pick them in fall and put them in storage to ripen slowly during the winter. I'm thinking of trying some next year but there's not much info out there on them. Sandhill Preservation has several varieties and apparently Burpee...
Anyone grow garlic? It has a great taste and is really good for you. I'm growing some now called "California softneck" and it seems to be doing really well (though I won't know until I pull it out of the ground, of course).
I grew onions last year they did great, but had no variety name. I...
Yeah, I wouldn't have gone to their facebook if I knew it had their personal views. I thought it would just be updates on sales, seeds, etc.
Back on topic, I grew some "love-lies-bleeding" amaranth a couple years ago. It is usually grown as an ornamental but you can eat the seeds and use them...
Rareseeds has a huge variety of options and they do a lot for rescuing old varieties of plants on the brink of extinction. My problem with them is a while ago on their facebook page they posted some bogus study linking GMOs to autism, with a link to a video saying 50% of babies will be autistic...
Found some websites. You can see from the pictures the difference in color, depending on soil. Some are snow white others are lemon yellow.
http://www.anniesheirloomseeds.com/great-white-tomato-organic/
http://www.totallytomato.com/dp.asp?pID=00323...
I've been getting plants from agway the last two years since I can't find any seeds anywhere! I'll look around online and see if I can find any seeds. I'll try to post tonight or tomorrow what I find, okay? Gonna check some heirloom seed companies...
Tomatoes:
1: Cherokee Purple
2: Great White
I want to talk about Great White because I never see or hear about it anywhere, even though it's a great heirloom tomato. First of all its a monster! It grows twice as fast as all the other tomatoes, heirloom or hybrid, that I or my neighbor...