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puffornot
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Joined: 25 Aug 2007
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Location: oregon sweet oregon
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A couple of recommendations for seed catalogs/websites:
www.rareseeds.com
www.territorialseed.com
The first one puts out a very fancy catalog with interesting heirloom items and looking through it will definitely chase the winter blues away. Included are green grape tomatoes. If you have not tried these - DO, they are incredibly good and sweet!! They had them at farmer's markets here last year.
Territorial seed is less fancy, but is 165 pages of seeds, plants, and gardening supplies.
Both include veggies and flowers. |
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achin4nakies
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Joined: 17 Jan 2009
Posts: 2707
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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I remember years back at this time seed catalogues arriving at my mom and dads. We had several vegie gardens that my mom and dad would harvest and "put down" so we could enjoy garden food all year round. I am sure this was due to economics but I know my dad loved to be in the garden and mom loved to bottle and can, they both got so much satisfaction from it!!!
Puff I have never had the green grape tomatoes. Without checking I am thinking that they would be a great container plant. I grow tomatoes every year at the cottage, would love to try these as a change. Planning a herb garden too this year.
Anne along with Ruby, Pipp and Lilli |
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StellaLeigh
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Joined: 24 Nov 2009
Posts: 1084
Location: wonderland
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We don't have much room for an actual veggie garden so we toss the veggies in with the flowers.
All our Tomatoes go in really deep containers on our deck. We always put one plant right at the foot of the deck and this is Lola's Tomato plant. She is so funny, every time she goes out she inspects the plant top to bottom in search of the first fruit. When she finally discovers it the routine goes from search to nurture,and she gives that tomato a lick every time she goes out, and when it's ripe it's hers  . She never bothers any other plants in the garden.She never touches the leaves just the tomato and it's the cutest thing 
We have tried a few heirloom tomatoes but never have much luck with them sadly.
We have the most success with early girl and one I think called Ruby.
I do plant copious amounts of lettuce for us and the wild rabbits.
Has anyone tried the upside down method of growing tomatoes?
Our neighbor a few doors down made his own containers out of 5 gallon pails and the plants that grew were monstrous 
We always plant loads and loads of herbs though |
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puffornot
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Joined: 25 Aug 2007
Posts: 3994
Location: oregon sweet oregon
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Growing veggies is actually fun and pretty easy. It is always an experiment because you are dependent on the weather just like commercial farmers. Because I live on the coast where it doesn't really get above 70 much even in summer everyone says "you can't grow tomatoes". Well last year a number of us at the community garden did grow a lot of tomatoes. The green grape tomato is relatively new and I don't know too much about growing it, and I am not thrilled about having to start from seed, especially since it isn't warm here and our growing season is technically fairly short. But for $2.50 for a packet of seeds I am trying it! I am trying to remember how much we were paying for the baskets of them at the farmer's market, but they never lasted long and we were right back buying more! Someone at a farmers market in Eugene is who turned us on to them.
Growing your own food is the best, you know where it came from, and you know it's fresh. And yes it is very economical. Its great to give extra to neighbors or your local food cupboard. Last year was the first time I had something other than a few pots and I was amazed at what came out of that garden. Our community garden has raised beds that are about 4ft x 8 ft. I have one and share half of another one.
My blind dog sought out the tomatoes on the container plants one year, and yes she didn't pay any attention until they started to get ripe. I also had to "donate" the original pot of Mesculin lettuces to the dogs as they love to graze there. So now I put barriers up around the container plants to try to ward off the Cresteds! We have fun trying to out plot each other. But I do plant a lettuce pot for them every year. |
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cadillackesha
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Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Posts: 6327
Location: Sunny South
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| I think I'm too late for seeds, but my fav catalog is from Park's Seed Co. They are located within 50 miles of me & I love to tour their gardens in the summer. The very best marigolds I have ever had came from them. |
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