Heirloom Vegetable Seed Sources

Here are a few heirloom vegetable seed sources for you. I don’t think it’s all inclusive but there are enough garden seeds here to sink a ship. Let me know in the comments if I’ve missed anybody you really think I need to include (put the data in the comments for others to read) One [...]

Aunt Ruby is a Tramp

I have it on good authority (from a resident heirloom seed expert) that Aunt Ruby is a Tramp. Can you believe it? I mean, really! Aunt Ruby came to dinner last night and after dinner, the Princess leaned over and quite confidentially told me about the predliction of Aunt Ruby to occasionally have different offspring. [...]

Doug Green’s Tomato Ladder

This is my world famous tomato ladder. It has been copied, duplicated and used in more countries than I can count and we’ve even had to fend off copyright challenges to the name “tomato ladder”. So I’ve decided to make this idea “open source” and you should feel free to copy it, duplicate it or [...]

Growing Pole Beans

Here is my fast, quick and easy trellis system for growing pole beans. A few things to note – the first is that you can grow multiple varieties of beans in one location – they don’t really cross-pollinate that easily. The second is that while we normally use a tripod for this pole bean trellis [...]

Tomato Blight

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Tomato Supports

Here’s how to make an easy tomato support or an instant garden fence. Lash the poles together and either use string to train your tomatoes up or hang netting over the support for pole beans or morning glories (or any other climber you fancy growing) up the netting. This easy system takes 5 minutes to [...]

Planting Tomatoes

It’s been so cold here that we’ve just planted our tomatoes and aren’t sure what’s going to happen with the yields. Here’s how I do it – nothing fancy but fast and easy. Remember the cardinal rule and you’ll be fine – only leave 6 inches of stem showing above ground (more or less, it [...]

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