Details Open-Pollinated: ? Type: indeterminate Shape: ? Color: translucent skin, yellow more than white Maturity: 85-90 days Size: large fruits: 1-2 lbs 5-6 oz according to another source Yield: ? Taste: “extraordinarily sweet tasting tomato” “mild & sweet” Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: ? Notes: believed to be related to “White Apple Tomato” from the 1860’s Sources: […]
Details Open-Pollinated: ? Type: ? Shape: ? Color: ? Maturity: ? Size: ? Yield: ? Taste: ? Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: ? Notes: Recommended variety by GV Sources: Results from My Garden: SEASON SOURCE DATES PLANTS SPACING MATURITY YIELD PER PLANT AVG SIZE DISEASE
Details Open-Pollinated: ? Type: ? Shape: plum Color: ? Maturity: ? Size: ? Yield: ? Taste: ? Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: “excellent disease resistance” (source?) Notes: Sources: Results from My Garden: SEASON SOURCE DATES PLANTS SPACING MATURITY YIELD PER PLANT AVG SIZE DISEASE
Details Lycopersicon esculentum Open-pollinated heirloom Type: indeterminate Shape: round Color: orange Maturity: midseason; 75-80 days Size: 8-10 oz, 8-12 oz (SoC.com), “large” Yield: ? Taste: juicy vibrantly flavored full, complex tomato taste great balance of acid-sweet bursts with flavor pineapple-like as well as buttery Meaty with few seeds Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: good choice for northern or cooler growing […]
Details Hybrid Type: ? Shape: ? Color: red Maturity: ? Size: ? Yield: ? Taste: won a taste test Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: V – Verticillium F – Fusarium T – Tobacco Mosaic Virus Notes: Sources: apparently it used to be carried by Stokes Seeds, but has since been discontinued Results from My Garden: SEASON SOURCE […]
Details Open-Pollinated: ? Type: determinate Shape: round Color: yellow to yellow-orange Maturity: ? Size: 1-2″ Yield: ? Taste: ? Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: good for containers Root knot nematode resistant Notes: weeping growth habit makes it good for containers, or cascading over walls well-branched, strong vines allow for no staking Sources: Results from My […]
Trench composting is done by using a rototiller or cultivator. Build a trench with plywood walls, or any other type of non-composting material, the width + 2 inches of your cultivator. Run the cultivator through it to aerate & turn.
Details Open-Pollinated Heirloom Type: Dwarf determinate Shape: round cherry Color: bright red Maturity: 45 days Size: 3/4″ diameter Yield: “very high yields” Taste: “delicious tomato flavor” Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: ? Notes: Recommended by NCG because it tends to be bushy and doesn’t require staking at only 10″ to 18″ tall Sources: Results from […]
Details Open-Pollinated: ? Type: indeterminate Shape: round Color: red with yellow-orange stripes Maturity: 55-65 days Size: 4-6 oz 2″ “medium-small fruits” Yield: “Highly productive” Taste: “Pleasant tangy flavor” Disease Resistance or Environmental Tolerance: “Disease resistant” Notes: 2009 was the first year for these in my garden, and although I’m growing them again in 2010, they were […]
The Rodale’s wrote the book on organic gardening. They also happen to publish the magazine, “Organic Gardening”. This is an in-depth resource on Composting. They go over the many different methods and plans for building them, along with their advantages and disadvantages. This book also does a good job with explaining the science behind composting. […]