When you have tomatoes to harvest, it is time to eat them. It is not time to plant more. If you want to plant more, save those seeds to grow next season. When it is time tostart tomatoes from seed, the tomatoes from the grocery store are not the ones to start. They are bred fo...
Propagating tomatoes from cuttings March 30, 20172 Comments8958 Views Overview/background: I recently stumbled upon a fairly simple method for growing tomato plants from cuttings. It happened by accident when I unintentionally knocked off a tomato branch. Because I felt bad about the plant trauma,...
Anita said:“When we plant tomatoes, we cut the bottom out of a 5 gallon bucket and put it on the ground around the plant. Then when you water the tomatoes, the water doesn’t run off of them, and it protects the plant from grounds insects and animals. If the cold weather hasn’t...
Just like tomatoes, bell pepper is another vegetable I use in my dishes quite often. And quite frankly, I can’t remember ever buying pepper seeds from garden stores. I grew my first bell peppers from over-ripened fruit bought from the market. 20. Rosemary | Rosemary grows well from cu...
Do you have lots of room in your garden and like a longer growing season? Then Indeterminate tomatoes may be a better choice. This type of tomato gets large and will need staking. Proper staking will keep leaves away from the ground, and help to preventall sorts of diseasesincluding those...
Because mint has such a tendency to take over, it’s best not to plant it near elderberry. Some sources discourage planting mint, strawberries, or members of the nightshade family (solanacae— like tomatoes and potatoes) with elderberry bushes because they can host some of the same plant dise...
leaf sizes, and even colors. Basil is often planted with tomatoes and peppers because they have similar growing conditions – well draining soil and 8 to 10 hours of sunlight. Basil is also used in companion planting as the mid to late summer flowers attract bees and beneficial insects to th...
Categories gardens, saving seeds, tomatoes Tags how to save tomato seeds through fermentation, saving seeds, tomato seeds, tomatoes How to Propagate Rosemary from Cuttings August 15, 2020 by Dave A few years ago I wrote post about propagating rosemary from cuttings placed in water. That method...
Perhaps your class is working on a unit about Mexico. Plant a salsa garden -- tomatoes, onions, peppers, and garlic -- and grow your own Mexican feast! If your students are learning about World War II, plan a "victory garden"! During the war, many people helped the war effort by pla...
Of course, tomatoes are fruit. These are dry fruits. I guess, if you had a pod with beans or something and it was dry, that’s a fruit. Margaret: You’d collect those. Ken: If I don’t do this, I lose them, because they split open and drop their seed. So before they can ...