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Tomato blight

children_of_lir wrote in gardening Feb 15, 2017 08:59

I have been raising heirloom tomatoes the last few years and, the last season or two, have had horrible problems with what looks like fusarium wilt. Last year there were new varietals I planted that no one even got to taste, because the fungus took them while they were still in blossom ( Read more... )

zone: usda 7, vegetable: tomato, heirloom

Expanding My Garden

whyintellectual wrote in gardening Mar 27, 2013 12:45

My friend Leah bought me a home depot gift card for my birthday earlier this month and today I put it to good use. Home Depot has a sale on veggies and herbs that ends today (5 for $10) as well as annuals for .75 and I made sure I got what I needed including a red and pink begonia ( Read more... )

annuals, garden method: containers, vegetable: tomato, heirloom, diy, hybrid, vegetable: eggplant, vegetable: bean

ID heirloom tomato varieties?

sarea_okelani wrote in gardening Oct 14, 2011 21:50

Can anyone please help me identify these three heirloom tomatoes? I'd like to save the seeds for next season, and would like to label them with their varieties, if possible. I've looked online, but honestly I'm no expert and they could fit the bill for so many different ones! Maybe it's impossible to really tell just from looking at them, but ( Read more... )

plant id, seeds, vegetable: tomato, heirloom

In Desperation....

amandorky wrote in gardening Apr 29, 2011 20:48

The cilantro and marigold companion plantings have done pretty much nill in deflecting insect predators. I actually plucked a cricket off the cilantro, as it was eating it! and crushed it between my fingers with vengeance ( Read more... )

garden method: companion/inter-planting, diy, repellants, garden pests: insects, zone: usda 9, heirloom

Hybrids and heirlooms

angelchrome wrote in gardening Mar 28, 2011 20:51

This is a quick article on hybridization because it's come up in more than one community and there seems to be some misinformation given especially to new gardeners about what hybridization is and how it affects your garden ( Read more... )

hybrid, beginning gardener, how-to, propagation: seed saving, heirloom

It's time! Again!

amandorky wrote in gardening Mar 13, 2011 22:29

72-ish seeds went into starters today, including ( Read more... )

seeds, heirloom

Yay!

g_dawgmckickass wrote in gardening Feb 05, 2011 13:18

It's still pretty wintery up here in zone 6 (WA), but I got excited at the current 50 degree weather, so I decided to start some seeds indoors. I planted a bunch of tomatoes and melons, as well as a squash. The exciting thing is, however, the fact that this year was the first time that I planted my own tomato seeds that I had successfully saved ( Read more... )

seeds, zone: usda 6, propagation: seed starting, propagation: seed saving, vegetable: tomato, heirloom