Sugar Basket is the type of tomato that dovetails perfectly with last month’s topic of tomatoes appropriate for growing in containers. You might recall that in my post about Container Tomatoes, I mentioned that not all tomatoes are cut out to be grown for a whole season within the confines of a container, whether that ...
Read More | Just VeggiesNot all pumpkins are orange, and the new Buckskin pumpkin from Burpee is a great example of that. Buckskin is more of a buff color than a Jack-O-Lantern type orange. However, if you look inside, Buckskin is indeed the rich and deep orange you’d expect of a pumpkin. Buckskin is in that rare pumpkin category ...
Read More | Just VeggiesThe basil variety called Pesto Party is your solution if your generic Genovese basil plants let you down each summer. I’ve been growing my Pesto Party plants for three months now and I couldn’t be happier. Why? Because this variety solves three common basil problems I have experienced in the past. Cold Weather Tolerance All ...
Read More | Just VeggiesThe “small-framed” new Patio Delight tomato from Burpee may be compact, but believe me, it checks off all the must-haves that most home gardeners are looking for in a tomato. Now, it’s not an heirloom, but that is not a box that requires checking in my book. Heirlooms can be rangy (i.e. leggy and flailing ...
Read More | Just VeggiesIf there is one garden dream that I have it is that all my tomatoes are well-behaved. By well-behaved I mean it is not a rangy character, growing every which way. Shimmer tomato, a new variety introduced by Burpee, is quantifiably a well-behaved tomato and my favorite plant in the garden this year. Why ...
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