The Blue Lace Flower To Purchase Blue Lace Flower Seed Click This Link Six Rare, Exquisite Plants You May Not Have Tried In this newsletter, we are going to feature some plants that most of you do not have in your gardens and plants which are largely misunderstood, but plants which are easy to grow and will grow in most…
An Ancient Vegetable with Modern Nutritional Value-The Fingerling Potato
Fingerling Potatoes An Ancient Vegetable with Modern Nutritional Value – The Fingerling Potato View the Harvesting History videos on growing potatoes at our YouTube site POTATOES CANNOT BE SHIPPED IF THE TEMPERATURES ARE BELOW FREEZING. WE WILL SHIP TO THE WEST COAST WHEN WE HAVE 5 CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF ABOVE FREEZING TEMPERATURES. WE WILL SHIP TO THE MIDWEST AND EAST COAST WHEN…
Sweet, Beautiful and Nutritious – The Home Grown Pepper
View the Harvesting History videos on growing peppers at our YouTube site Sweet, Beautiful and Nutritious- The Home Grown Pepper Sweet peppers are one of those vegetable garden essentials that should only be consumed when picked fresh from the garden. By the time a sweet pepper has reached the grocery store produce section it has lost some of its sweetness…
Giants of the Tomato World – The Sandwich/ Slicing Tomatoes
Check Out The Harvesting History Collection of Plant Videos on YouTube Giants of the Tomato World- The Sandwich/ Slicing Tomatoes The tomatoes in the photo above starting from the top left and moving clockwise are Pineapple, Aunt Ruby’s German Green, Mortgage Lifter, Red & Yellow Stuffers, Black Krim, Kellogg’s Breakfast, Big Rainbow, Green Zebra and Great White. All are heirloom…
Growing Beets – It Rarely Gets Easier Than This
Growing Beets – It Rarely Gets Easier Than This Heirloom Beets To Purchase Heirloom Beet Seeds Click This Link Check Out The Harvesting History Collection of Plant Videos on YouTube For most of the US it is now time or will be in the next 45 days to plant beets. Before you turn up your noses in disgust at the…
Kale and Collards-Some of the Cold Hardiest Vegetables in Existence
Kale and Collards-Some of the Cold Hardiest Vegetables in Existence Kale and Collards are probably the earliest cultivated variations of the European wild cabbage. Kale is known to have been widely grown by both the Greeks and the Romans. From a scientific classification point of view, kale and collards are considered to be the same plant – just two different…
Mankind’s Most Utilitarian Vegetable-The Potato
Check out our detailed videos on growing potatoes and growing potatoes in tires on YouTube! To see our Starting Potatoes in the ground or in tires videos on You Tube click this link Potatoes cannot be shipped if the temperatures are below freezing. We will ship to the west coast when we have 5 consecutive days above freezing temperatures. We…
The Grandeur of Flowering Vines
The Flowering Vine, Morning Glory Heavenly Blue To purchase Morning Glory Heavenly Blue Seeds click this link In terms of ornamental grandeur derived from floral displays, the most underrated assets we have in the horticultural world are the flowering vines. Blankets of yellow, red, purple, white, blue orange and just about any other color you can think of have embellished…
The Ultimate Tomato Garden
Tomatoes To purchase Harvesting History Tomato Seeds click this link Today’s newsletter was created to answer a question that we receive frequently, “Help me to choose some tomatoes for my garden. I do not have a lot of space.” In today’s gardening world, the problem of limited space is ubiquitous from city dwellers with only a roof top or a…
Peas-Earliest, Sweetest, Easiest to Grow
Greetings Harvesting History Friends and Neighbors! The 2019 New Year begins in 3 days and with it the start of the 2019 gardening season, but we are getting a jump start on the season with our first newsletter of the 2019 season today. This season our newsletters will focus on three types of gardeners: • Traditional Heirloom Gardeners, • Teachers…