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Category: Tomato

Time to Start Planning Next Year’s Garden – Try This Little Garden with Mini Pumpkins & Morning Glories

July 21, 2022July 21, 2022
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Jacki Kellum Garden, Plan, Pumpkins, Strawberries, Sunflowers, Tomato

It is officially too hot to be outside and therefore, I am inside today and planning my next year’s garden. The plan centers around a bean pole teepee. You see some of my bean pole teepees in the back of

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Garden Daily – Keep Track of What Happens Each Day in Your Garden

July 12, 2022July 16, 2022
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Garden Daily, Pumpkins, Tomato

Early this morning, I saw my first glorious pumpkin bloom, but by mid-day, the bloom had closed. That’s how pumpkin blossoms behave. Because there is no bulbous protrusion at the base of the blossom, indicating that the blossom is female,

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What Is A Kitchen Garden or Potager?

June 12, 2022June 12, 2022
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Arbors, Beans, Edible Plants, Herbs, Kitchen Garden, Pineapple Sage, Scarecrows, Tomato, Vegetables

I have read that as people began planting their food, as opposed to hunting and gathering for it, the first kitchen gardens began.  With that in mind, we might call any place where we grow food a kitchen garden–what the

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Saga of My Birdhouse – See How Things Changed in 6 Short Months

October 24, 2021
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4 Season Garden, Canna, Cardboard to Block Weeds, October, Perennials, Pineapple Sage, Raised Beds, September, Tomato, Trellises

Today, the Pineapple Sage has almost completely obscured my birdhouse, which has been a focal point of my garden for several years. But in April of 2021, 6 months ago from today’s date, I started a new garden in my

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Super Sweet 100 Cherry Tomatoes Are Truly Super Sweet – An Abundant Treat

August 13, 2021August 13, 2021
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Jacki Kellum Garden, Tomato

  Every morning, I am like Red Riding, as I enter my cherry tomato forest, basket in hand, hoping that this will be the morning that my host of Super Sweet 100 cherry tomato plants finally ripen, and I can

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Pink Brandywine – An Heirloom Tomato Like My Grandmother Grew

August 13, 2021August 28, 2021
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Amish Gardens, Antique Roses, Roses, Tomato, William Welch

In my garden, I am continuously searching for the plants that my German grandmother probably grew in her magnificent garden, and I am almost certain that she grew Pink Brandywine tomatoes, which are currently considered to be Heirloom cultivars. My

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