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Thanks for the responses, much appreciated. Thetomato feels a liitle mushy so it will be picked real soon. I will look into the fermenting process, perhaps there will be enough seeds to do both methods. NwMtGardener; I won't laugh at anybody unless the're funny. By the way I was born in NW...

Greetings gardeners, chronic lurker yardfarmer here to ask a question. How ripe should a tomato be to pick and save the seeds? We are having a very good season for tomatoes , two of the fruits are ripe, which is very early for this part of Or, so I want to save the seed from one of these...

Pruning depends on the type of tomato plant, determinate or indeterminate. I always prune indeterminate tomatoes since they're grown on a trilis. I let the determinate tomatoes grow as much as possible, usually in a cage since I don't have a lot of room to let them spread out on the groung.

Hello fellow gardeners, been long time since I posted on this forum, almost forgot my password. Ive gotten a lot of good information and advice from here so I thought Id share an experience I had as a little pay back. Last week I lost the entire broccoli planting and most of the cabbage to the...

Thanks so much for the link to this article. I'm really disappointed with Territorial Seed, I have purchased seeds from them since 1987. What an eye opener. I contacted Territorial to find out if they purchase seed from Seminis. They told me that they no longer buy seeds from Seminis. The...

Territorial Seed Company PO Box 158 Cottage Grove, OR 97424 http://www.territorialseed.com/ They have been in business for quit a while, started by Steve Solomon. I just recieved their spring catalog, usually the first to show up here in Oregon.

DW and I canned alot of bread and butter pickles this weekend and finally used up the last of the metal ball and kerr lids we had stocked up over the past few years. For the last batch we used the reusable tattler lids and I gotta say I miss that "tink" when the lid seals...it is like the sound...

very nice harvest lesa!! i just started pulling our garlic...just love the smell od garlic hanging in the shed

Thanks for the reply Steve, you are the one with the shallot experience i believe. these are sante shallots from territorial seed, planted sets not seeds. wet weather still coming...i may pull them and dry in the shed. I started bonilla from seed this year, this is a first for me. they are...

Hello fellow gardeners, been a while since I last posted...good to see this forum has grown!!! hopefully someone can let me know when shallots are ready. these were planted last fall, over wintered, and now they have grown into 4-6 individual bulbs, still connected at the roots. they haven't...

This material was used on a project once. It's made from recycled plastic and natural wood fibers. The plastic is used to bond the wood fibers together. The wood fibers are shorter than natural wood so it flexes easily, and will not take much loading. I would imagine that the force of the...

I started carrots once indoors and transplanted after they had a few leaves. I used several 12- 18 inch sections of plastic gutter with cut up plastic milk jugs taped over the ends to contain the potting soil. After they sprouted and grew a little I dug a small trench, took the ends of the...

Territorial Seed in Oregon sells a variety of row covers online. hope this link works for you. http://www.territorialseed.com/prod_detail_list/171

Perhaps floating row covers would keep the moths from laying eggs on the plants. I have a similar problem with leaf miners eating up beet and swiss chard leaves. The row covers keep the flies off the leaves and has really stop the damage.

Bt is Bacillus thuringiensis a type of bacteria that attacks certain types of catapillars. This year I sprayed the brocolli and cabbage after seeing the white butterflies around the garden. I've picked off the tiny white eggs laid by the butterflies, but I'm sure I missed some. This year...