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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...

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...

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...

My DW and I have been canning for years, and we just got the latest edition of the Ball Canning book. The book says the only way to sterilize jars is to boil them. Last year we were doing several batches of tomatoes, pears, pickles, etc. and we used to oven to heat the jars over 212 degrees...

i have about 30 corms of crocus sativus in a bag. When is it time to plant these little bulbs? Hopeing to get some saffron for the spice rack. I'm in zone 8b Oregon. any advice is appreciated! thanks.