Roma Tomato Size Chart
Sometime in summer, tomato season sinks in. Your vines is weighed down with green fruit. There are all those tomato varieties in jars. You know … Read more
Sometime in summer, tomato season sinks in. Your vines is weighed down with green fruit. There are all those tomato varieties in jars. You know … Read more
A perfect stand of corn would have an ear on every plant and all the stalks would be the same height. No? That’s not what … Read more
The tomato seed packet says “cherry,” so it will be easy, right? No! Depending on which cherry tomato variety you grow the flavor and timing … Read more
They will come back: Scatter cucumber seeds in the hills and still get to harvest a crop? Yes, though it’s harder when time comes for … Read more
It’s all in the probabilities: When sowing multiple seeds per cell (hoping to get at least one germination), you think of them as interchangeable units, … Read more
When it comes time to transplant your seedling outside… Oh, no, wait, you haven’t even chosen what tomatoes will join your garden? Time to panic. … Read more
The seed packet says there are 50 plants per packet. What it actualy delivers is forty-two. Three went bad, four were gobbled by slugs, and … Read more
Gardeners are mostly lottery ticket people with seeds: Buy a packet, throw it in the ground and see what happens. This laissez-faire attitude goes pretty … Read more
Mid-July can be tomato overload time: you go out and pick three crates of red things over 48 hours’ time, and then your friends politely … Read more
When you sow lettuce seed, it’s not arithmetic; it’s a matter of how much risk you’re willing to take in a small area. Don’t think … Read more
The particular kind of interest is in cross breeding peppers. When you do this, you’re pulling traits from one plant and splicing them onto another: … Read more