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Heirlooms and GMOs: Why I’m Growing Both This Year

Heirlooms and GMOs: Why I’m Growing Both This Year

Pssst… Don’t tell anyone, but I’ve got a dirty little secret growing in my greenhouse.I’m growing genetically modified (GM) tomatoes—six…
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How To Plan a Seed-Saving Garden (Without Losing Your Mind)

How To Plan a Seed-Saving Garden (Without Losing Your Mind)

Growing a garden is an excellent way to lower food costs. But buying seeds and plants can also add up….
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How to Preserve Your Garden’s Best Plants Year After Year

How to Preserve Your Garden’s Best Plants Year After Year

You’ve probably seen the meme with the guy holding his first homegrown tomato and saying it only cost him $157….
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Heirloom, Hybrid, GM-Oh My! Understanding These Gardening Terms

Heirloom, Hybrid, GM-Oh My! Understanding These Gardening Terms

I was recently trolled on social media for a “too-perfect” photo of Sasha’s Altai heirloom tomatoes. Given their origins in…
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Growing it Forward: Seed Saving and Simple Plant Propagation

Growing it Forward: Seed Saving and Simple Plant Propagation

Like everything else, the price of seeds and garden plants continues to rise. Seed saving and propagating plants is a…
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Seed Packet Basics: What, When, and How to Plant

Seed Packet Basics: What, When, and How to Plant

Anyone who thinks that gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of…
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Winter or Storage tomatoes... what's that? These beauties are Italian heirlooms... Piennolo Giallo, Piennolo Rosso, and Annarita. Piennolo means "hanging" in Neapolitan dialect, and in Naples, you'll find bunches of these tomatoes hanging in everyone's kitchen. They're sweet right off the vine, but their flavors intensify as they hang... And they'll store for three months or more. Yes, you can enjoy fresh, sweet tomatoes into late fall 🍂 🦃Not a gimmick, these are true Italian heirlooms from the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Put them on your Coop plant list for next year! 🍅#thecoeurdalenecoop#neapolataintomatoes#italianheirloomtomatoes#piennolovesuvio#wintetstoragetomatoes ... See MoreSee Less

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Heirloom tomatoes 🍅🍅
Organic gardening 🥕🌶
& Urban chickens! 🐔🐓

Cleaning garlic. 🧄 It's slow going, but a perfect Cleaning garlic. 🧄 It's slow going, but a perfect way to spend a summer afternoon. Tops and roots are trimmed, and loose papers sluffed off. 

This garlic was harvested in early July and is curing nicely outside on racks in the shade, but it's not fully cured. It still needs a few more weeks to continue to dry, before the final stem trimming and bagging in mesh nets for storage.

Of course, I'm also sorting out the biggest and best bulbs for replanting in October. 🧄

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