Tomatoes not ripening on the vine? Lindsay, owner of North End Organic Nursery, explains the process required for tomatoes to turn from green to red. She also offers a surprising tip for ripening tomatoes that have already begun to change color.
Are your tomato plants refusing to set fruit? Lindsay, owner of North End Organic Nursery in Garden City Idaho, explains the pollination process required for tomato flowers to produce fruit. She also offers tips for getting the most fruit possible from your tomato plants. It’s so easy!
If you planted garlic this fall, I am sure it’s up and looking great right now! Lindsay, owner of North End Organic Nursery in Garden City Idaho, explains some of the things that can be done to make sure you produce large fragrant heads of garlic for all of your fall meals. Garlic should likely…
Get to know tomatoes!! Today’s featured variety: Hill Marmande Certified organic plants available at NEON, grown from seed from Snake River Seed Cooperative! Meaty French heirloom tomato with excellent eating qualities. Superb slicer. This is a selection of the famous French heirloom market variety done by discerning grower Kristi Appelhans. Fruits produce heavy yields of…
Get to know tomatoes! Today’s featured variety: Aunt Ruby’s German Green No, I know many people have an aversion to green tomatoes because they look unripe, and they fear they will not know when to harvest them… But don’t worry, it’s not that tricky. Most green tomatoes don’t stay completely green, they will turn hues…
Get to know tomatoes! Today’s featured tomato is: Mortgage Lifter Also known as radiator Charlie’s mortgage lifter, the tomato has a fun backstory of it being developed by the owner of a radiator shop located at the bottom of a steep hill in West Virginia. Over six years, he bred and developed this tomato, and…
Lindsay Schramm, owner of North End Organic Nursery in Garden City Idaho, describes the process required to properly condition your garden soil in order to have a successful season. Unless it’s already been premoistened, brand new garden soil needs to be slowly wetted in order to convert its nature from being hydrophobic (water repelling), into…
Get to know tomatoes! Today’s featured variety: Pruden’s Purple Spoiler alert! It’s not purple! 72 days. Vigorous indeterminate vines with potato leaf foliage produce 1 pound fruits with excellent sweet, balanced classic tomato flavor. This dark pink beefsteak tomato dates to the 19th century when “purple” was used to describe pink tomato color, long before…
Get to know, Tomatoes! Today’s featured variety: Holy Myrrhbearer Grown from seed through Snake River Seed Cooperative! I freaking LOVE this tomato! Truly heart-shaped, with velvety texture–SO GOOD! These seeds reportedly came from Russia in the 1800s and passed down from a monk to one of the Sisters of the Holy Myrrhbearers, who shared them…
Get to know tomatoes! Tomatoes come in so many amazing colors, sizes and complex flavors… We are going to feature a different tomato every day for the rest of May! Today we feature: Malakitovaya Shkatulka A Russian JewelIt really is a gem, as its name suggests: Malakhitovaya Shkatulka means “malachite box” in Russian.Malachite is a…