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Vegetables

Tomato Disease Resistance Codes Decoded

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Tomatoes are America’s favorite garden vegetable. One big reason for that is tomatoes are pretty easy to grow. Still, there are problems you could face when you’re growing them. If you’ve experienced difficulty raising “maters”, you may be interested in some disease resistant varieties and hybrids. But codes like “VF”, “VFFA”, and “VFNT” can be […]

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Removing Suckers From the Tomatoes

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The Problem With Tomato Plants Tomato plants form what are called suckers. Suckers form at the junction of the main trunk of the tomato plant with the branches. If left alone tomato plant suckers will develop into full fledged branches. This will make a nice full bushy plant. But most experts tell you to remove […]

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Tomato Planting Time

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The tomato call. “The tomato plants are already too tall. You need come get them today, before the rain gets here.” That was my dad’s message late in Mother’s Day afternoon. Dad is the tomato plant supplier for our whole family. He starts the plants from seed and passes the plants to us. So we […]

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First Garden Goodies for 2010

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I harvested the first goodies from the garden for this year. Radishes. I just picked a few of them. Took them in and shared them with my wife. They were nice and crispy and just a little tangy. Just like I like them. The plan was to gather several more along with some of the […]

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Radish Time

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Today was another nice day. So… I planted a small section of radish seeds. I just broadcast the seeds lightly on the ground and then covered them with some bagged garden dirt. Simple and quick. These will make nice snacks and will be a great addition to salads.

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Garden Season 2010 Has Begun!

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I put my new onion plants in the ground today. It felt great to be out in the sun again. The weather finally shows signs of warming up. It got into the low 50’s this afternoon. Shirtsleeve weather. It was great! This little warm spells has finally melted off the snow. This means the ground […]

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Onions Are Here

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It’s an exciting day – my onion plants arrived while I was at work today. I got them from Brown’s Omaha Plant Farms in Texas. They sell live onion plants by the bundle. I got one bundle of Hybrid Candy, Hybrid Superstar, and Red Apple Candy Hybrid varieties. It’s much too cold to plant them […]

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Big Sweet Onions

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Are you sick of winter? Have you been cooped up inside for months? Getting cabin fever? Does the spring garden seem like a far off dream? Well, think onions! Onions are one of the first plants you can put in the garden. If cabin fever leaves you the need for dirt under you finger nails, […]

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