• Easy Garden Tomato Soup

    This recipe is ? Measure with your heart. Zucchini and tomatoes being the two basic ingredients that I preferred to have in equal portions, you can add different herbs and veggies and seasonings to your taste!

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  • How to Manage Overgrown Tomatoes

    Do as I say, not as I do. This is what happens when pruning your tomatoes is just not a thing during a super busy spring and summer. All is not lost! With some light pruning now and some more aggressive pruning in a few weeks, I still think I’m going to have a pretty…

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  • Why Won’t My Green Tomatoes Turn Color?

    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.

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  • Shaking Tomatoes For Better Fruit Set

    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!

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  • Growing Great Garlic: Spring Edition

    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…

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  • Get to Know: Hill Marmande

    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…

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  • Get to Know: Aunt Ruby’s German Green

    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…

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  • Get to Know: Mortgage Lifter

    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…

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  • Conditioning New Garden Soil for Planting

    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…

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  • Get to Know: Pruden’s Purple

    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…

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