July is busy. The first month where the harvest is reliably colorful and supplies a decent meal beyond greens, here up north.
It’s also the end of that precious timeframe where the garden doesn’t require a great deal of clean-up. Up here, not much has died yet.
But it’s coming.
Suburban Backyard – 95 plants, 70 plus varieties! Grow Notes Here.
All seeds grown in the high wind prairie, Midwest, in macro-climate zone 5(ish). Average dewpoint in summer is around 60. Soil is a loamy clay. Although my preference is organic, I have used commercial fertilizers from time to time. Growing Days approximately 135. Gardening Personality: Relaxed, experimental, purist about very little. I practice High Intensity …
Review of the sweet Agi Red tomato, one of my favorite snackers and a long keeper.
I grew 18 varieties of cherry and snacking tomatoes in my 2022 garden. Were they delicious enough to make into my 2023 garden?
Pink Tiger Tomato Tasting and Grow Notes
The Prettiest Heirloom Tomato In The Whole Wide World
The process of building a tomato cave support is fast. I built two in about fifteen minutes. Months before the build, the first step is to plot where your tomatoes and stakes will go…
The flavor of the Aunt Ruby’s German Green tomato is typical of a large green tomato. Mild, low acid and slightly sweet. The plants germinate easily, have average disease resistance and have the average production one would expect from a large heirloom tomato plant…
Growing notes for the Hungarian Heart tomato, a large meaty red oxheart tomato with a well balanced flavor.