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  • The Science & Art of Growing Tomatoes in Containers

    Feb 06, 2020 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Seeding the Future, Vegetables
    The Science & Art of Growing Tomatoes in Containers

    CONTAINER GROWN, Slicing Tomato, Silvery Fir Tree The Science & Art of Growing Tomatoes in Containers THE SEEDS DISCUSSED IN THIS NEWSLETTER ARE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE AT THIS LINK WE HAVE 2 YOUTUBE VIDEOS ON TOMATOES. THEY ARE: PLANTING TOMATOES IN CONTAINERS AND PLANTING TOMATOES Why is This Specific Newsletter So Special? I have been growing tomatoes for 64 years. I began when I was 5 years old growing tomatoes in a tiny backyard garden in a rowhouse community in Baltimore, MD. Those first tomato gardens consisted of 5 plants in an 18 inch by 10 foot space. Eventually, I expanded to large gardens with 20-40 plants and since 2004 my colleagues and I have been working on a research project growing approximately 40 different tomato plants each year in containers. Over the years we

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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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  • Giants of the Tomato World – The Sandwich/ Slicing Tomatoes

    Jan 25, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    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 varieties. All produce sandwich-sized tomatoes. All are DELICIOUS! We know that most tomato gardeners will grow a few cherry-sized tomato plants, maybe a few paste tomato plants, but for tomato gardeners, their passion is the sandwich/slicing tomatoes, and we would be remiss if we did not dedicate a newsletter to these wonderful fruits. Sandwich/slicing tomatoes do not occur naturally. They are the result of traditional breeding practices that began more

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  • Totally Tomatoes With An Heirloom Tomato Tasting

    Feb 02, 2017
    Totally Tomatoes With An Heirloom Tomato Tasting

    Come experience the wonderful world of tomatoes. From Rutgers hybrids to old-time heir

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  • Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplants

    Feb 02, 2017
    Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplants

    Caring for the Gems of the Garden

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  • Herb, Comfrey

    Feb 08, 2022

    HERB, Comfrey – Symphytum officinale FULL SUN OR PARTIAL SHADE Comfrey is easy to grow and incredibly vigorous. plants can be grown in full sun or partial shade in Hardiness Zones 7-10. They are hardy from Hardiness Zones 3-10. Comfrey is best grown from dividing the roots in late fall or early spring, but it can also be grown from seed (not recommended) or by taking cuttings at any time. The plants need to be set 3 feet apart, and since they easily reach heights of 3-5 feet should be set near the back of the garden or in an area by themselves. Roots should be buried about 4 inches deep. Lining the hole with fresh Comfrey leaves or dusting the surface of the soil with Comfrey

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  • Fingerling Potato-Ama Rosa-1 Lb

    Jan 20, 2022

    FINGERLING POTATO, Amarosa – Solanum tuberosum Harvesting History will begin shipping potatoes in February, WEATHER PERMITTING. We CANNOT SHIP POTATOES to the areas EAST of the Mississippi unless we have 3 DAYS with above freezing temperatures. We CANNOT SHIP POTATOES to areas WEST of the Mississippi unless we have 5 DAYS with temperatures above freezing. We CAN SHIP to the Southeastern US and Southern California in December. FULL SUN Amarosa fingerling potatoes are a new variety that was released in 2010 are small in size and are oblong and slender in shape. The thin skin is smooth with a deep red to burgundy coloring with some brown spots and patches. There are also a few, shallow eyes and lumps scattered across the surface. The flesh is firm,

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  • Eggplant, Apple Green

    Jan 05, 2021

    EGGPLANT, Apple Green – Solanum melangena esculentum FULL SUN Apple Green is truly an American Heirloom, but it is not a native American plant. This eggplant was developed in 1964 (57 years ago) by famed plant breeder Elwyn Meader of the University of New Hampshire Agriculture Experimental Station. Meader was a highly respected and prodigious developer of plant varieties for short season climates. During his career, he introduced more than 60 different plants including the Fall Gold raspberry and the Royalty Purple Pod bush bean. Apple Green, like Rosa Bianca, produces 1-3 huge, round, “Granny Smith” – green fruits per plant which weigh approximately 1-2+ pounds per fruit. Unlike the Asian eggplants, Apple Green fruits are slightly sweeter and more flavorful. The plants are known to set fruit

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  • The Best Stocking Stuffers Ever – SEEDS!!

    Nov 27, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables
    The Best Stocking Stuffers Ever – SEEDS!!

    The Purple Tomatillo The Best Stocking Stuffers Ever - Seeds! THE SEEDS DISCUSSED IN THIS NEWSLETTER ARE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE AT THE FOLLOWING LINK: https://harvesting-history.com/product-category/seeds/vegetables/ OR YOU CAN CLICK ON THE WORDS “BUY NOW” IN EACH IMAGE AND THIS WILL TAKE YOU TO THE SPECIFIC PAGE ON OUR WEBSITE FOR THAT ITEM It is SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY – the best shopping day of the entire holiday season. At Harvesting History, we hope all of you visit your local small businesses and support them by making purchases. Remember, small businesses built this nation and they are still building this nation. They have taught more than 20 generations of Americans the discipline, creativity, attitude and responsibility that is required to run a business. Today is the one day in the entire year that you can recognize

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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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