Growing Ayocote Blanco White Runner Beans

March 27, 2015 Schuyler Rain

Heirloom Ayocote Blanco White Runner Bean is native to North and Central America. Heirloom Ayocote Blanco white Runner Bean grows on long healthy vines that can reach over 10′ tall plant that is an edible ornamental. The vines of Heirloom […]

Growing Grand Rapids Lettuce

March 18, 2015 Schuyler Rain

Grand Rapids Lettuce is a heirloom leaf lettuce that makes large compact bunches of bright green leaves. The broad crumpled leaves have frilled edges. Grand Rapids Lettuce is crisp and sweet and can be harvested at any stage of growth. […]

Growing Cherokee Purple Tomatoes

March 9, 2015 Schuyler Rain

Cherokee Purple Tomato is an old Cherokee Indian heirloom tomato. This variety was offered in seed catalogs pre-1890. Heirloom Cherokee Purple Tomato has beautiful purple burgundy fruit with green shoulders and has deep burgundy flesh with green gel around the […]

Yellow Pear Tomato in Bed Turning into Gold

July 4, 2010 The Rain Family

The Yellow Pear Tomato in the raised beds are turning gold. All of these pictures were taken today. That’s not rain on the leaves – it’s been so long since we had rain. We had just watered them. The Lemon […]

Growing Japanese Long Cucumber – How they measure up.

June 28, 2010 The Rain Family

Japanese cucumber are a long slender cuke with great crisp texture. Ours average from 12 – 18 inches. Yes, We measure and weigh our veggies occasionally, it’s a gardener thing. Like a fisherman bragging about the fish he caught. Grow […]

Yellow Pear in bed setting fruit

June 26, 2010 The Rain Family

The Yellow Pear in bed has been setting fruit. This Heirloom variety of tomato is very prolific. The branches are just covered with trusses of tomatoes. Grow your own Yellow Pear Tomatoes with Heirloom seeds from AzureDandelion.com.

Growing Yolo Wonder Pepper Almost Ready

June 26, 2010 The Rain Family

The Yolo Wonder Pepper is setting fruit. This sweet bell pepper has thick walled 4 lobed fruit that start out green and turn to red. It is one of my favorite pepper, the variety our family grew when I was […]

Growing Purple Beauty Pepper

June 26, 2010 The Rain Family

Purple Beauty Pepper Plants are doing well. We have mulched around these with pine chips from the chicken coop. We are still going to need to weed, because the grass is comming up through the mulch. We didn’t put down […]

Planting Long Red Cayenne Pepper in Bed

June 20, 2010 The Rain Family

Long Red Cayenne pepper starts planted in a small bed next to our new asparagus bed. We started these in a wooden box outside. These are planted next to Petite Orange Marigold flowers. Grow your own Long Red Cayenne Pepper […]

Planting Heirloom Japanese Long Cucumber

June 18, 2010 The Rain Family

The Japanese Long Cucumber are doing great. We planted these under one of our rows of grapevine. With a little coaxing they trellised themselves up the grapevines and the wire that was there for the grapes. We added a couple […]

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Growing Ayocote Blanco White Runner Beans

Growing Grand Rapids Lettuce

Growing Cherokee Purple Tomatoes

Yellow Pear Tomato in Bed Turning into Gold

Growing Japanese Long Cucumber – How they measure up.

Yellow Pear in bed setting fruit

Growing Yolo Wonder Pepper Almost Ready

Growing Purple Beauty Pepper

Planting Long Red Cayenne Pepper in Bed

Planting Heirloom Japanese Long Cucumber