Yellow Pear Tomato planted in bed around the 1st are really taking off. Lemon Queen Sunflowers are flanking the tomatoes on each side for added support as they grow. Grow your own Yellow Pear Tomatoes with Heirloom seed from AzureDandelion.com.
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Calendula Coming Right Along
Commonly called Pot Marigold, this heirloom has double flowers on long stems. This is our special mix of orange, yellow, cream, apricot, and peach. Great companion plant for your tomatoes, as a pest deterrent. These are about 8″ tall at 30 […]
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Spring Salad Harvest
We couldn’t wait any longer and harvested some of our Tom Thumb Lettuce at 28 days. Here is one of the pretty little rosettes we harvested. A large salad bowl full of Tom Thumb Lettuce. Grow your own Tom Thumb Lettuce […]
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French Breakfast Radish has an oblong shape. The flesh is white and very mild. The outside has a red top and white bottom. Here they are planted with Parisienne Carrot at about 16 days. They reach full maturity at 24 days. […]
Continue reading »Visitors From The Woods
These deer live in our woods. In early February they ventured into the front yard where we took these pictures of them.
Continue reading »Growing Cherry Bell Radish
Here are some Cherry Bell Radish Planted with Parisienne Carrot about 16 days ago. Full maturity is 21 days. Grow your own Cherry Bell Radishes with Heirloom Seeds from Azure Dandelion.
Continue reading »Growing Tom Thumb Lettuce
Tom Thumb Lettuce is a butterhead type of lettuce. It forms little rosettes. As with most things we plant the seeds closer than recommended. We also almost never thin seedlings, of any kind, as it is a waste of seed, time, […]
Continue reading »Planting Yellow Pear Tomato in Bed
We planted some of our Yellow Pear Tomato starts in a raised bed a few days ago with Lemon Queen Sunflower on each side. Purple Plum Radishes and Cosmic Purple Carrots are planted on the outer edges. Grow your own Yellow […]
Continue reading »New Radish Sprouts
What a beautiful day it is today! We try to plant carrots and summer type radishes together in one planting, usually in a block as opposed to a row. If we do plant them in a row, it’s a row about 1 foot […]
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