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  • The 6 Most Beloved Hot Peppers of All Time

    Feb 20, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    Heirloom Hot Peppers To Purchase Heirloom Hot Pepper Seed click this link The 6 Most Beloved Hot Peppers of All Time Sweet and hot peppers are indigenous to Central and South America. They have been cultivated since prehistoric times. Archaeologists have found chili peppers at sites dating to 7000 BC. The Aztecs, Incans and Mayans all cultivated peppers. The Aztecs had at least seven different words for hot peppers. We derive the term chili pepper from some of the Aztec words for hot pepper. The Incas used peppers as a form of currency. Columbus named the peppers he saw growing in the West Indies, pimiento, because he thought they were the pimienta, spice pepper, grown in the East Indies. He was painfully surprised to find out that the West Indian

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  • The Paste/Plum Tomatoes-Good for Everything!

    Feb 18, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    The Paste/Plum Tomato To Purchase Heirloom Paste/Plum Tomato Seed click this link The Paste/Plum Tomatoes- Good for Everything! Of the three morphological classes of tomato – cherry, slicing/sandwich and paste/plum – the paste/plum tomatoes are the least popular. This is unfortunate because paste/plum tomatoes are, literally, good for everything. Cherry tomatoes are too small for making sandwiches and roasting and too much work to put in sauces, but they are great in salads and for popping in your mouth straight from the vine. Sandwich/slicing tomatoes are great for sandwiches, but they are usually too watery for sauces and salads. Paste/plum tomatoes have it all. Like cherry tomatoes they are small enough and firm enough to be eaten in salads and right off the vine. Like sandwich/slicing tomatoes they are just

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  • Dinnerplate Dahlias

    Feb 15, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    Dinnerplate Dahlias Dinnerplate Dahlia Emory Paul To Purchase Emory Paul Dahlias click this link It is the middle of February and many of us have had a horrible winter and are longing for spring. This newsletter is dedicated to each of you. For those of you who routinely read this newsletter, you will note that there are many, many more photos than usual. This newsletter is designed to stimulate your imaginations for the gardens you will have this upcoming season and engage your memories of your beloved gardens from the past. Dinnerplate Dahlias are large plants which produce the biggest blossoms. The plants grow to at least 36 inches high, but more commonly 48-60 inches. The very first blossom each season will be the largest, and it is often

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  • The 4 Greatest Heirloom Eggplants of All Time

    Feb 11, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    The Heirloom Eggplant To Purchase Heirloom Eggplant Seed click this link The 4 Greatest Heirloom Eggplants of All Time Eggplants originated in China and India and have been cultivated there for thousands of years. The Spanish Moors introduced the eggplant into southern and Eastern Europe where it became very popular. The early explorers of the New World introduced eggplant into the Americas in the 1500s, but the plant never caught on. For many years, Americans were suspicious of the plant because it belonged to the Nightshade family, of Deadly Nightshade fame. Eggplants, tomatoes and potatoes all belong to this family and many Americans thought the vegetables were poisonous. In a mid-1800 American seed catalog, two varieties were listed Large Purple and Early Purple. At that time, egg plant or melongena

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  • Six Rare, Exquisite Plants You May Not Have Tried

    Feb 09, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Garden Tools, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 of the American hardiness zones. Each year you should try to grow something in your garden that you have never grown before. Some of these experiments will pleasantly surprise you; some will be disappointments. Given the sophistication of the people who routinely read this newsletter, I am sure that some of these seed varieties have been familiar, but I suspect that at least one or two of you will not have

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  • Sweet, Beautiful and Nutritious – The Home Grown Pepper

    Jan 30, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 and most of its nutritional value. Sweet peppers, fresh from the garden, are some of the most nutritious foods you can eat. They contain high levels of Vitamins A, C, E, and B6, potassium and magnesium. Along with bananas, they are the recommended source for individuals requiring high levels of potassium in their diets, but unlike bananas they do not contain as much sugar. Sweet and hot peppers are

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  • Ballerinas in Floral Disguise Part I – The Oriental Lily

    Jan 18, 2019 Categories: Bulbs, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    Ballerinas in Floral Disguise Part I - The Oriental Lily Check Out The Harvesting History Collection of Plant Videos on YouTube The lilium genus, surprisingly, is only indigenous to the temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere, but it has been so popular for so many centuries that it is worldwide in distribution. There are many, many species native to North America, Asia and Europe. Flowers are of many different sizes and shapes – some highly fragrant, some not. Lilies were a part of the Greek and Roman civilizations. New World lilies and the lilies of China and Japan were quickly and eagerly embraced by Europeans and the British. Since the Renaissance, the development and cultivation of lily cultivars has proliferated, but it was not until the late 1800s that the

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  • The Grandeur of Flowering Vines

    Jan 04, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 dirty old fences, chipped pillars and columns, rusted stair railings, neglected sheds and disfigured walls for centuries. Cascades of opulent colors have introduced drama and elegance to building facades, balconies, porches and bridges. Unfortunately, in today’s world where instant gratification is the only acceptable gratification, flowering vines are a rarity. They are a rarity for the simple fact that vines take time to grow. You can’t run

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  • The Ultimate Tomato Garden

    Jan 03, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 balcony, to suburban homeowners with only a deck or patio, to rural farmers who can only protect a small space from the critters, to seniors, everywhere, who refuse to abandon their much beloved tradition of summer tomato growing and consuming the luscious fruit warm from the vine. The “Complete Tomato Garden” will have 1-2 different varieties of tomatoes from each of the three kinds of tomatoes: plum/paste,

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  • The Perfect Flower for Young and Old-The Dahlia

    Dec 28, 2018 Categories: Bulbs, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized

    Greetings Harvesting History Friends and Neighbors! The 2019 New Year begins today and with it the start of the 2019 gardening season. This season our newsletters will focus on three types of gardeners: • Traditional Heirloom Gardeners, • Teachers Who Inspire Children to Become Gardeners and • Container Gardeners This newsletter’s topic, the first of the season, is DAHLIAS. For the money invested, dahlias are one of the best values in the ornamental world. From mid-summer until the first hard frost of late fall, these lovely plants will produce a profusion of blossoms which beg to be cut and placed in a vase. The more the plant’s blossoms are cut, the more blossoms the plant will produce. For the gardener who always wants a vase of fresh flowers to grace the

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